Polar bear cubs are born blind, hairless, and weighing just half a kilogram. For the first few months of their lives, they rely entirely on their mothers, nursing on milk that is 31% fat.

TACOMA, Wash. — The Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium will unveil two of its latest additions later this month: twin sister polar bear cubs. Astra and Laerke arrived Friday evening after being ...

Sisters Astra and Laerke were born on Nov. 17, 2020, to mother Suka and father Nuka. Just two days after her birth, however, Laerke suffered a medical emergency – separating her from her sister ...

Officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service captured a wild, orphaned polar bear cub and brought it to the Alaska Zoo after observing the animal acting comfortable around humans ...

Twin polar bear cubs, Astra and Laerke, were born at the zoo on November 17, 2020. Now 2 and a half years old, the siblings will soon be moving to Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, Washington.

A lone polar bear cub that was wandering the Prudhoe Bay oil field was evacuated and sent to the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced.

The Detroit Zoo's two polar bear cubs are headed to the Pacific Northwest, officials announced Tuesday. After 2.5 years at the Royal Oak site, Astra and Laerke soon are scheduled to relocate to ...

Twin polar bear cubs born more than two years ago at the Detroit Zoo are now calling Tacoma home. The cubs, Astra and Laerke (pronounced LAIR-keh), arrived at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo ...

TACOMA, Wash. — The Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium will unveil two of its latest additions later this month: twin sister polar bear cubs. Astra and Laerke arrived Friday evening after being ...

Tacoma just got un-bear-ably cuter. Two polar bear cubs, born two years ago at the Detroit Zoo, have arrived at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium. The twin sisters, Astra and Laerke, are settling into ...

TACOMA, Wash. — The Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium will unveil two of its latest additions later this month: twin sister polar bear cubs. Astra and Laerke arrived Friday evening after being ...