Inbreeding behind unique phenomenon, say scientists.
Ice along the northern coast of Siberia is retreating faster than elsewhere, leading to a special threat for our polar bears, Russian expert says.
This animal and its lost mother wandered some 700 km too far south 'because they couldn't go north' and got confused.
Dilemma over how to help the two-year-old ‘orphan’, still not old enough to tend for itself.
This is the moment of the happy meeting between two young polar bears in a Siberian zoo.
Eight-year-old Kolymana lives in the world’s coldest zoo after losing her mother in the Arctic.
Rangers in Yakutia are on a lookout after watching a video showing a failed rescue attempt.
The inquisitive baby took a first walk at Orto Doidu zoo in Yakutsk aged three and a half months.
Orphaned female, attracted by smell of food, spent several months at the shift workers’s base.
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