This is, after all, a problem for many other land mammals in cold environments, from musk ox to bearded polar explorers. Holst asked researchers at Norway's Polar Research Institute if they knew ...

Later that day, when the Zimovs were resting and neither Gruzdev nor the rangers were in town, a polar bear bashed its way through the wood-and-chicken-wire paddock surrounding seven baby musk oxen.

Located above the Arctic Circle at 70°N and roughly 800km from the nearest town, Ittoqqortoormiit's backyard is a frigid, untamed wilderness home to polar bears, musk oxen and millions of sea ...

Musk ox and auk. Among them were the polar Inuit, 300 or so of whom lived almost completely disconnected from the rest of Greenland — and the world — in near-perfect ecological adaptation.