Larissa, thought to be the world's oldest female polar bear in captivity, has died at the age of 36, a zoo in northern ...

Two polar bear brothers shared a heartwarming reunion after meeting for the first time despite being born years apart and ...

"The official transportation of professional nappers." ...

Over a century ago, a team of researchers set out to establish the first research station on Canada’s Ellesmere Island. Then ...

Researchers have combined satellite collar data with specialized cameras to shed light on one of the most mysterious and important stages in polar bears' lives -- maternal denning, when bears give ...

As the Arctic warms, polar bears now face a greater risk of contracting several pathogens than bears three decades ago. Karyn Rode and Caroline Van Hemert of the U.S. Geological Survey report these ...

Polar bears are the only mammal known to actively hunt humans. Still, every year Canada’s most feared, and revered, residents attract thousands of tourists from around the world. Not only do these ...

It's a pretty risky business trying to take a blood sample from a polar bear—one of the most dangerous predators on the planet—on an Arctic ice floe. First you have to find it and then shoot it with a ...

They’re equally adorable and dangerous. Here’s how to spend some quality time — safely — with Polar Bears, the world’s largest carnivore, out on the tundra in northern Canada. ByAdam Morganstern, ...

A polar bear, captured above, sits on a grassy expanse on Kolyuchin Island in the Chukotka district of far-eastern Russia. Several bears made themselves at home in the empty buildings of a Soviet-era ...

This gorgeous Great Pyrenees is so white and fluffy that viewers say she looks like a pet Polar Bear.

These amazing images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show the Arctic animals at their fierce but adorable best A polar bear mother and her clingy, but cute, cubs are photographed along the ...