It's a pretty risky business trying to take a blood sample from a polar bear—one of the most dangerous predators on the ...

After spending more than 3 minutes underwater, the polar bear "exploded" out of the water and propelled itself halfway onto the ice floe, right in front of where one of the seals was resting.

A little polar bear in Canada was trying to find that exact sweet spot — on top of his tired mama. Video shows a fidgety cub trying to find the perfect spot to rest on its mother's back at ...

Polar bear cubs are incredibly vulnerable for their first few days, the zoo explained. These massive bears weigh about two pounds at birth, ... The baby polar bear resting on its mother’s paw.

The last fatal polar bear attack to occur in Alaska was in December 1990. Similar to Tuesday's, the 1990 attack was unprovoked. York said that in 1990, it had been a thin and hungry bear.

"As the sea ice goes, so goes the polar bear": A camera the scientists attached to a female polar bear captures a close-up of another bear on the Arctic sea ice. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey It ...

Flores-Deter, Elenbaas and Johnson were among a record crowd of 540 people who ran, walked or jumped into the lake in Waukegan’s 25th-annual Polar Bear Plunge Monday at the city’s beach in ...

But all the rest of the polar bear population, so the majority of them, have typically not used land, except for denning. And denning, in polar bears, only occurs by pregnant females, so not all sex ...

"The seals may be there, but [the polar bears] can't get to them." In 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that the global polar bear population will shrink to a third of its current size by ...

Climate change may have been a factor in a recent fatal polar bear attack in Alaska. Summer Myomick, 24, was walking through a snowstorm on Tuesday with her 1-year-old son, Clyde Ongtowasruk, in ...

In a rare attack, a polar bear killed a woman and her 1-year-old in an Alaska village; it also tried to get into a school before it was killed, authorities said.