A polar bear feasts on a seal it captured in the receding tide along the Hudson Bay Lowlands. Ryan St. John peers through his binoculars on the shore of Hudson Bay near his home community of Arviat, Nunavut, an Inuit village of 3,000 residents in north ...

The snowy weather was perfect for not one, but two polar bear birthdays Tuesday at Como Zoo in St. Paul, Minnesota.

With climate change dismantling polar bears' icy habitat, research suggests they are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive.

Scientists in a recent breakthrough have discovered a paradigm shift in polar bears’ genetics, helping them to adapt to disastrous realities of climate change. Owing to human-caused

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has estimated that there have been sharp declines in Alaska's polar bear population. Alaska polar bears face serious threats because of rising global temperatures and human activity. As Defenders of Wildlife reported ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Zoo will soon say goodbye to one of its most beloved polar bears, while welcoming a new one. While the zoo didn't share an exact date, Nora the polar will move to Wisconsin's Henry Vilas Zoo this fall. Nora will eventually be ...

In a single year, one polar bear can leave roughly 300 kilograms of prey for other animals to dine on. Altogether, the carnivores provide 7.6 million kilograms of carrion for scavengers throughout the Arctic, researchers estimate. The findings, reported ...

The aspiring animal photographer took a photo of a polar bear and shared it on his Instagram just a day before his death. Christopher Best, a 34-year-old man, was killed by two polar bears on a remote Canadian island on August 8, 2024, just one day after ...

Snowflake, the beloved polar bear at the Pittsburgh Zoo, celebrated her 30th birthday.