Polar bears are great swimmers but they can’t outswim seals. So they hunt them on the Arctic sea ice, waiting for them to come up for air and then pouncing. But as the amount of sea ice decreases due ...

Polar bears are not only the largest bears, but they are also the largest land predators in the world. So, when it comes to ...

Is there anything better than diving into cold water in the summertime? Polar bears love plunging into refreshing water as ...

Bournedale Elementary School 1st graders were visited by Salt, a life-sized inflatable model humpback whale; and Carol "Krill ...

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions.

Polar Bears struggle to survive as new footage reveals the harsh impact of melting Arctic ice on their behavior and health.

Analysis of the fat samples showed that the main pollutants present were ... They even eat grass (seaweed), even though that has no energy for them," Jon Aars, the head of the Svalbard polar bear ...

Analysis of the fat samples showed that the main pollutants ... the head of the Svalbard polar bear program, told AFP. “If they have very little sea ice, they necessarily need to be on land ...

Above-ambient temperatures also indicate a bear in a den ... down high-energy milk, mother polar bears don’t feed at all during this time and rely on their fat reserves, losing up to 43 per ...

Polar bear mothers in the Arctic generally give birth ... nursing on milk that’s about 31 percent fat. By the time they are ready to leave the den in the spring, they are up to 20 times bigger ...

A fat polar bear is a bear more likely to thrive in its extreme Arctic environment. So, when scientists discovered polar bear populations were dropping rapidly, they created a framework to ...