A mother polar bear stunned scientists by swimming 427 miles across open Arctic water in just nine days. Her near nonstop journey highlights the extreme physical demands polar bears now face as sea ...

(Berlin, Germany) - The Berlin Zoo has seen a massive rise in visitor numbers thanks to its star attraction, the polar bear cub Knut.Germany's celebrity polar bear cub expects to bring in $3.3 million ...

When a female polar bear located near Western Hudson Bay in Churchill, Manitoba emerged from her den last spring, researchers documented that she had one young cub by her side. The baby was tagged to ...

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For nine days, a polar bear mother, formally known as Bear #20741, did not stop swimming. In the vast, open water of the Arctic, where solid ice once stretched for miles, the female polar bear pushed ...