The coldest country in the world offers a remote destination with rewarding experiences of northern lights viewing, polar ...

How Old Is That Polar Bear? The Answer Is in Its Blood. So-called “epigenetic clocks” are helping wildlife biologists estimate the ages of animals far more easily than in the past.

You probably know polar bears as the big white animals roaming the Arctic, but there’s a lot about them that doesn’t make it ...

The Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo announced in a news release on Tuesday, July 23, that one of its 7-year-old male polar bears died by drowning after sustaining a 'crushing injury' to his trachea ...

In 1993, a 55-year-old mechanic survived a polar bear attack at Oliktok Point, an Air Force radar station nearly 700 miles north of Anchorage. Polar bears in captivity have also attacked and ...

Myomick, 24, and her son, 1-year-old Clyde Ongtowasruk, made it just beyond the front of the Kingikmiut School in Wales, Alaska, just below the Arctic Circle, when a polar bear emerged from the ...

The seven-year-old Baffin died at the Calgary Zoo on Friday after roughhousing in a pond with another male bear, the ...

A polar bear chased down and killed a woman and her 1-year-old son when it entered a remote village in Alaska before it was shot by a resident.

A polar bear pleaded with humans for help after getting a tin can stuck in its mouth. The 2-year-old female was roaming around northern Russia when her tongue was caught in a can of condensed milk.

She’s the new 22-year-old polar bear who recently arrived at the Detroit Zoo. Haley was born on Nov. 15, 2002, and comes from the Memphis Zoo, where she had been living since she was 4 years old.

A polar bear carefully uses stepping stones along the shore of a frozen pond with very thin ice in the Churchill Wildlife Management Area in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, Nov. 1, 2021.

The seven-year-old Baffin died at the Calgary Zoo on Friday after roughhousing in a pond with another male bear, the eight-year-old Siku, while visitors to the exhibit watched. Baffin submerged in ...