A viral video posted by ABC News shows the terrifying moment a man narrowly escaped a charging polar bear in the Arctic wilderness. The footage captures the man sprinting toward a snowmobile with ...

Plungers ran into the cold Chesapeake Bay on Saturday, Feb. 1, marking the 29th annual Special Olympics Maryland Polar Bear Plunge. The fundraising event, in which individuals pledge $100 or more ...

Polar bears have a hidden-in-a-plain-sight superpower that anyone who has watched a wildlife documentary could have spotted: ice doesn’t stick to their fur. This has long been known to ...

Polar bears are one of the most majestic, yet fearsome animals on the planet. The largest living species of bear and the largest land carnivore, the polar bear is closely related to the brown bear.

Photo courtesy DICK VAIL A 2025 Polar Bear Plunge participant holds their hat out of the water to keep ... dressed in thick winter coats, boots and gloves — cheered from the nearby shoreline ...

decked out in an apropos polar bear hat and glove set. “It’s a fabulous way to start the year,” Janeen told KXAN. “It’s kind of like a baptism. You wash off the old year and you bring in ...

Polar bears survive by hunting on sea ice, which makes them especially vulnerable to climate change. New research shows that sea ice loss can present other, less obvious threats to the species as ...

The Wild Canada zone at the Wilder Institute Calgary Zoo was closed Friday after one of the zoo’s two polar bears — a seven-year-old male named Baffin — did not resurface from the pool and died.

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Robyn by emailing r.white@newsweek.com Scientists have issued a dire warning over the survival of polar bears as a previous theory that the species ...

The photographer of a stunning image of a polar bear drifting off to sleep on a bed of ice won the Natural History Museum's 2023 Wildlife Photographer of the Year award, drawing attention to the ...

So, why are there such differences between species, and what are the implications of this polar bear’s death for the wider polar bear population, as well as other large mammals and humans?