Even as the tide turned for fur, crocodile leather has kept selling in high-end fashion. But for how much longer?
Dotted across northern Australia are 21 saltwater crocodile farms, home to around 130,000 crocodiles. Their skins are turned ...
Polar bears are greasier than you think. Here's why
Polar bears might be greasier than widely believed. The bears’ greasy fur is the secret to the popular species’ survival in ...
Even as the tide turned for fur, crocodile leather kept selling in high-end fashion. But for how much longer?
Dotted across northern Australia are 21 saltwater crocodile farms, home to around 130,000 crocodiles. Their skins are turned ...
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Why Fur Is Back in Fashion
Fur farms dominate the trade, and production has more than doubled since the 1990s, to about a hundred million skins last year, mostly mink and some fox. Trappers typically add millions of wild ...
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Fur Fashion stock illustrations
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Polar bear fur could hold the secret to replacing ‘forever chemicals’
Now, researchers have discovered the bears have another unexpected Arctic adaptation: greasy fur. It’s a trait that, ...
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Wolf Fur Texture Backgrounds stock illustrations
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Greasy hair gives polar bears fur with anti-icing properties
An international team of scientists has discovered the anti-icing secret of polar bear fur—something that allows one of the ...
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The Incredible Reason Sloths Grow Algae on Their Fur
Sloth hairs have microcracks where algae grows. The algae tinges the sloth fur green, giving the animal a perfect disguise among the trees.