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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.