Polar Bear Holds Breath for 3 Minutes and 10 Seconds Underwater

While studying polar bears in a Norwegian archipelago located between continental Norway and the North Pole, researchers saw a polar bear swim underwater for three minutes and 10 seconds. Study’s co-author Rinie van Meurs, Stirling said that it was a thin polar bear and very desperate for food.

Meurs said that the bear was in a bad condition. It was trying to feed on a group of seals that were resting an ice floe. The study researchers think that polar bears are adapting to climate change. They are trying to adjust with warmer climates.

But the researchers said that the bears do not have enough time to evolve into deep-dive creatures that do not require ice to survive climate change. The bears have the ability to spend more time underwater, owing to which it is considered that they have resorted to deeper dives.

It has also been unveiled that polar bears are also hunting on land and killing those animals that they normally do not hunt. This has led some populations to move further north. The researchers said that the bears might be hunting on land, but there is not enough than thought earlier. “There is simply not enough to eat on land to support so many large bears”, said the researchers.

The researchers think that evolution could provide polar bears with better diving skills and their paws are wider and fin-like.