The rare event marks the 13th known instance of adoption within this well-studied group of polar bears living in the western ...

The cubs are about 10- to 11-months-old and are known as Cubs of the Year (COYS). According to Polar Bears International, ...

The footage of a bear caring for an adopted cub was captured during the annual polar bear migration along the Western Hudson ...

A mother polar bear has made the decision to adopt - a move that scientists say is extremely rare - and the new family was ...

A mother polar bear in Northern Canada appeared to have "adopted" a cub not biologically her own. This is an extremely rare ...

Canadian researchers said they were stunned to discover a very rare case of polar bear "adoption" in the wild, in which a ...

A polar bear mother and her cub were walking near Churchill in mid-November when scientists saw her with a second cub, which ...

A team of Canadian researchers have documented a rare care of a female polar bear adopting an unrelated cub who was ...

It's only the 13th known case of adoption out of the 4,600 bears studied for nearly five decades in northern Canada.

Researchers could not believe their eyes when they witnessed that a mother polar bear in northern Canada had adopted a cub ...

A female polar bear in western Hudson Bay has adopted an orphaned cub, a rare event highlighting unexpected social behaviour ...

A photographer in Manitoba captured a rare sight on camera while tracking polar bears in November: a mother bear walking with ...