A viral video posted by ABC News shows the terrifying moment a man narrowly escaped a charging polar bear in the Arctic wilderness. The footage captures the man sprinting toward a snowmobile with ...

ST. LOUIS – The bare truth of life is that sometimes good neighbors move. The Saint Louis Zoo announced Wednesday that they have exchanged one of their long-time resident polar bears for young ...

In a study published in The Journal of Wildlife Management, we used remote cameras to study polar bear families as they emerged from their dens in Svalbard, Norway, gaining insight into the ...

Nano-physicist Bodil Holst's interest in polar bear fur began while she was watching a German quiz show. “I learned that polar bears are invisible in infrared cameras, meaning their fur has the same ...

Plungers ran into the cold Chesapeake Bay on Saturday, Feb. 1, marking the 29th annual Special Olympics Maryland Polar Bear Plunge. The fundraising event, in which individuals pledge $100 or more ...

ONTARIO, Canada (WKRC) - A man was seriously injured after he jumped onto a polar bear to prevent it from attacking his wife. An unnamed Canadian couple left their home at around 5 a.m. on Tuesday ...

The top 10 largest bear species, ranked by size and weight, range from the polar bear, standing up to 10 feet tall and weighing over 1,500 pounds, to the sloth bear of the Indian subcontinent.

1:36 Polar bear poop sheds light on protected species It may seem like an unorthodox way to study polar bears, but it turns out the massive animals’ feces is offering vital clues into their ...

A rare polar bear that was spotted outside a cottage in a remote village in Iceland was shot by police after being considered a threat, authorities said Friday. The bear was killed Thursday ...

Calgary Zoo A polar bear has died after engaging in "rough play” with another polar bear at a Canadian zoo. The Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo announced in a news release on Tuesday, July 23 ...

Why? For one thing, the light-phase bear ("phase" refers to color variations in bears) shown in the video is "clearly not a polar bear," York said. According to the wildlife educational ...

So, why are there such differences between species, and what are the implications of this polar bear’s death for the wider polar bear population, as well as other large mammals and humans?