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.

Stories have surfaced of animals fighting off new diseases and sometimes losing that fight. The bird flu infected and killed a polar bear and walruses in the Arctic for the first time.

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 ...

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.

Sinogene launched its Arctic wolf cloning project in 2020, in collaboration with the polar theme park Harbin Polarland, it said in a statement posted on the Twitter-like platform Weibo.

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 ...