The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest.

During an expedition to Canada this week, a wildlife photographer snapped the shot of a lifetime as he observed a polar bear mother standing upright, looking around, her two young cubs beside her.

Standing in for a groundhog, Snow Lilly, the Milwaukee County Zoo's polar bear, saw her shadow Friday morning. So, according to legend, that means six more weeks of winter. We wish. The zoo turned ...

The polar bear would be the last to go. So says a zoo in northern Germany, which drew up a startling contingency plan if the financial strain caused by the government-ordered shutdown because of th… ...

"There is nothing normal about standing on a frozen fjord, hours from any habitation, flanked by 10,000-year-old grounded icebergs. This is the realm of the bear, and this early spring expedition ...

One image, of a starving polar bear in a town in Siberia, seemed to encapsulate the tragedy of climate change. But the story, it turned out, was incomplete.

This plush polar bear is irritating Inuit who say the toy's translation is inaccurate and inappropriate, and Inuktitut-speakers should have been consulted. (Ty Inc.) Social Sharing.

A team of students from the Royal Danish Academy has developed a pop-up igloo inspired by polar bears, with an origami 'skin' to trap snow and use it as a natural insulator.

The Arctic is nothing without the polar bear. They define the whole northern hemisphere. They're the apex animal, and when they disappear, the whole chain of events below them is in trouble as well.

The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest.

The polar bear would be the last to go. So says a zoo in northern Germany, which drew up a startling contingency plan if the financial strain caused by the government-ordered shutdown because of th… ...