Among these animals is the Arctic hare, the largest hare in North America. The Arctic hare has large claws on all four feet, but the ones on its hind legs are unusually long, allowing it to dig into ...

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 ...

A wide variety of Arctic animals, including polar bears, are being exposed to a tick-borne pathogen normally associated with rabbits and hares, a new study said.

And where there are trees, the animals that depend on them—such as beavers—can thrive. In fact, there is evidence that a forested Arctic is where the beaver’s dam-building skills first ...

A wide variety of Arctic animals including polar bears are being exposed to a tick-borne pathogen normally associated with rabbits and hares, a newly published study said. The findings are ...

Arctic animals, like polar bears and seals, could face challenges as they rely on ice for their survival. Additionally, non-native fish of invasive species may migrate to the warmer waters, ...

Aerial photography from the 1950s showed no beaver ponds at all in Arctic Alaska. But in a recent study, Ken Tape, an ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, scanned satellite images of ...

Primates, Beard said, “would be one of the last animals you would predict would show up on an Arctic island,” but using fossils collected by paleontologist Mary R. Dawson in the 1970’s, whom Beard ...

Not all Arctic animals are faring as well. Inland caribou populations have declined by 65% over recent decades, according to the report card. One main reason is that they're often eating less.