ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Polar bears get fat eating ringed seals, and to avoid that fate, Alaska’s smallest pinniped digs out snow caves on the sea ice, where they surface to breathe and give ...

In the spring, one polar bear needs to snarf at least one adult ringed seal, or 19 newborn pups, every 10 to 12 days.

Today’s petition follows previous petitions by the Center seeking protection of the polar bear, Pacific walrus, and ribbon seal, Arctic marine mammals threatened by the loss of their sea-ice habitat ...

After twenty minutes flying, we spotted the remains of an adult ringed seal with fresh polar bear tracks around. Tracking the bear, we located it on an island a bit later. It turned out to be an old ...

Over the past 30 years, polar bears have increasingly exchanged ringed seal with harp seal and hooded seal in their diet. This change exposes the polar bear to more contaminants, according to a ...

Principal Dawn Hendrickson slammed the door in the face of the charging bear, possibly saving lives, an official said.

Well, unless your daily life involves seeing polar bear cubs wrestle on the low-sloping side of a mountain, or observing eight walruses snuggling in a pile to keep warm on drift ice.

Environmental groups first petitioned the federal government to list the ringed seal along with two others under the ...

“Polar bears have evolved to specialize on a high fat diet composed primarily of seal blubber,” Karyn Rode, the lead author and a USGS research wildlife biologist, said. Her team’s new study shows ...

Alaska bid to scrap endangered species protections for the Arctic ringed seal failed Friday after a federal appeals court ruled the National Marine Fisheries Service reasonably considered new climate ...

Prolonged ice-free periods putting Hudson Bay polar bear population at risk of extinction: Study Polar bears' primary prey, the ringed seal, are also at risk.