When faced with six months of perpetual darkness where snow and ice lay claim to every inch of the land, which animals […] This post courtesy BBC Earth‘s Race to the South Pole series.

Animals of the Arctic. May 15, 2006. Caribou look like large deer or small elk with antlers. They stand four to five feet tall and can weigh more than 500 pounds.

Watch Arctic Vets on CBC Gem. The animal care team at the Assiniboine Park Conservancy in Winnipeg are world-class experts on Arctic animals. They specialize in caring for Canadian Arctic species ...

Arctic animals are exposed to more diseases It’s been harder for Rode, a polar bear researcher for nearly two decades, to do her job in recent years. Every spring, she and her team would sample ...

Polar bears aren't the only beloved Arctic animal threatened by climate change. Scientists believe reindeer are at risk as a warming world makes their main winter food source disappear. But ...

Just how and when polar bears adapted to the Arctic is still debated. In this study , a team analyzed the genomes of 119 modern polar bears, 135 modern brown bears, and two fossilized polar bears.

Most Arctic Animals Should Deal With Climate Change Just Fine New research suggests that most Arctic mammals will actually be helped, not hurt, by climate change. Colin Schultz.