Now, however, scientists have managed to capture rare footage of a polar bear mother and her cubs leaving their den in the Arctic for the first time. The video comes from Svalbard, the sparsely ...

Thanks to remote time-lapse cameras in custom housing built for the winter conditions in Svalbard, Norway, researchers were able to observe mother polar bears and their cubs emerging from hibernation.

Polar bear cubs are born in December or early January. Scientists have captured a rare new footage of polar bear cubs emerging from their dens for the first time. The footage shows a mother polar ...

It shows a mother polar bear walking through the frozen landscape — then a cub pops up out of the den and slips and slides over the ice toward her. As the cub reaches its mom, another two emerge ...