As the world's largest bear, and largest land carnivore, polar bears are impressive mammals and are adapted to living in the ...

Polar bears lose sea ice due to climate change, forcing them to fast longer and lose body fat, leading to emaciation. The ...

The genes of polar bears are showing they’re adapting in the face of a rapidly evolving world – and that is not necessarily ...

Global competition in the Arctic is raising hopes of a revival in the town of Churchill. We went to meet the people, and the ...

A study identifies that at least eleven species of vertebrates benefit from this carrion, including Arctic foxes and ravens. There are between 22,000 and 26,000 polar bears in the world, distributed ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

A polar bear feasts on a seal it captured in the receding tide along the Hudson Bay Lowlands. Ryan St. John peers through his binoculars on the shore of Hudson Bay near his home community of Arviat, ...

Italian brown bears have some remarkable characteristics. Learn more about these bears and how several factors made them docile.

A new study suggests that polar bears are undergoing rapid genetic changes, and scientists believe it's due to the impacts of climate change.

In early 1993, the Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson arrived at the most remote settlement in Greenland, a lonely town in the east that is tucked away in the world’s largest fjord system, which ...

Heber City • One of the world’s largest predators can be found lumbering around the bubbling Daniels Creek in Heber City. Tank the grizzly bear is not a native Utahn, but his ancestors are. On the ...

Hunters transport a bear that was shot and killed during the 2016 hunting season across Lake Tugaloo. The hunters were taking the animal to station where a state wildlife official could weigh the ...