An international team of scientists has discovered the anti-icing secret of polar bear fur—something that allows one of the planet's most iconic animals to survive and thrive in one of its most ...

You have something in common with polar bears. Polar bears and humans produce sebum. It's an oily substance that comes from ...

Polar bears have a built-in defense against ice — greasy fur. A team of scientists has discovered that their fur is coated in ...

These could be unique to polar bears, but we can’t be sure of that, as so few studies have looked at the composition of animal sebum, says Holst. Arctic peoples such as the Inuit have ...

While this finding sheds fascinating new light on our understanding of polar bear -- and even Inuit -- ecology, it may also have a suite of unrelated applications, with a similar concoction of ...

This natural technology hasn’t gone unnoticed by Arctic indigenous peoples. The Inuit developed sophisticated hunting techniques that mimicked polar bears’ advantages. They crafted hunting stools with ...

This grease also helps explain more about the hunting strategies of polar bears and Indigenous Inuit populations. Polar bears deploy “still hunting,” where they lay motionless next to a ...

The Inuit people prepare clothes using polar bear fur with its sebum coating intact, protecting them from the cold. An international team of scientists have found that sebum, or the grease that ...

The anti-icing secret of polar bear fur, the critical factor that allows the animals to survive and thrive in punishing cold climates, has finally been explained. It is all down to a distinct form ...

Inuit people have taken advantage of the sebum’s properties, even affixing shoe-like patches of polar bear fur to the bottom of stools to prevent them from sticking to the ice. Understanding how ...