Warming temperatures may be changing the ways ice forms, making it more likely to stick to and injure polar bears in two far ...

I had long dreamed of taking a picture of a polar bear while it waited beside a breathing hole, hoping to grab a seal. I knew it would be a difficult photo to get, but here I could see it ...

The big move is driven by the return of the sea ice they need to hunt, but getting to seal town involves going through the “polar bear capital of the world”: Churchill, Manitoba, in Canada.

Polar bears were documented using abnormal and inefficient hunting behaviors in spring of 2004 to 2006 in which they clawed holes through solid ice to try to catch seals, suggesting high nutritional ...

A polar bear will use its hearing and scent to locate seal breathing holes. It will be motionless for several hours as they wait for a seal to surface! They will also jump out of the water onto the ...

These cute pictures of baby animals will make your day. It may come as little surprise that these unusual creatures have a ...

A polar bear has been shot dead in a remote Icelandic village, the latest casualty of growing tensions between humans and the Arctic mammals. Polar bears are the world's largest land carnivore ...

Increased exposure to certain pathogens can be traced back to the bears’ diets, which include seals as well as birds, eggs, seaweed, and carrion. This implies that polar bears aren’t the only ...

Hungry polar bears are turning to rubbish dumps to fill their stomachs as their icy habitat disappears. On Wednesday, a team of Canadian and US scientists warned that trash poses an emerging ...

Dmitry Kokh (Russia) shares an otherworldly encounter of polar bears taking over an abandoned settlement. As Dmitry's boat approached the small, uninhabited island of Kolyuchin in the remote Russian ...

The study indicates the injuries appear to be an 'unexpected consequence of climate change' as conditions continue to change ...

The Canadian town of Churchill has already had more than four times as many polar bear visitors this year compared with the same time last year, and many more could soon be on the way. The sisters ...