A man who jumped onto a polar bear to protect his wife from being mauled in Canada is recovering from ... leapt onto the animal to prevent its attack," officers wrote in the release.

Her husband leapt on top of the animal to save her from what is a rare attack ... polar bears across Canada; of the world’s total estimated population of 26,000. A polar bear and a cub search ...

ONTARIO, Canada (WKRC ... ground as her husband leapt onto the animal to prevent its attack," the local police reported. "The bear then attacked the male, causing serious but non-life-threatening ...

This kind of attack is very rare, but it is serious because it usually means the bear is looking for food and preying on you," Parks Canada said. Do you have a tip on a science story that Newsweek ...

a polar bear chased residents near a school in a small village in Alaska, killing a woman and her 1-year-old son. There were 73 documented attacks by wild polar bears across Canada, Greenland ...

While polar bear sightings are common in the area, incidents like this aren’t. “An attack is rare but not unheard of,” NAPS spokesman Scott Paradis told CTV News. • Brad Matthews can be ...

“I spotted the male that would attack me first ... officers responded to a report of a serious bear incident on the Trans Canada Trail connecting Pine Lake to Haines Junction around 10:30pm ...

Police said the congregants received minor injuries as a result of the bear spray ... has no place in Canada — and I’m keeping the community in my thoughts today. The attack on congregants ...

Polar bear attacks are extremely rare ... Police did not immediately respond to a request for more information. Canada has a polar bear population of more than 17,000, which is about two-thirds ...

Finally, two readers took issue with Parks Canada's rule, mentioned in the ... "They should be held liable for any polar bear attacks. It’s crazy to think that in Svalbard, they don’t allow ...

told Canada's CBC News. "It could be that [when] this attack happened maybe this bear was a little hungrier than usual," she said. Between 1870 and 2014, 73 polar bear attacks on humans were ...

A brave mom who was attacked by a grizzly bear while jogging, says her 2-year-old daughter was her inspiration to survive. “I was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Vanessa Chaput, 24, of ...