In the Arctic, polar bears are equally at home swimming in the frigid waters or galloping across fields of ice and snow. When they emerge from the water, their fur temperature drops to nearly that of ...

The Arctic Circle doesn't even see the sun for six months of the year, so what we could consider to be summer is just a brief ...

Polar bears are fearsome predators, but thankfully, most of us will never have to worry about encountering them in the wild.

White fur, blubbery skin, sharp claws. Polar bears seem perfectly adapted to their frigid habitat up north. Now, researchers ...

She realized that she had never seen a polar bear covered in ice in any wildlife documentaries, even after they emerged from a dive in below-freezing water. “And then I thought, well ...

or temperatures above freezing when it should be cold,” says John Whiteman, chief research scientist for Polar Bears International. “It is striking that this problem affected multiple bears in ...

Meet the creatures built for icy survival!

My goggles are freezing over, and my thumb is getting ... lair while she dives for fish and crustaceans. Arctic foxes and polar bears often try to root out the pups for dinner.

With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer ...

I've had snow on my brain and considered sharing a video that shows snowed-in people in the Great Lakes area who were hit by heavy snow over the Thanksgiving weekend, or a bubble freezing in ...