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

The third-oldest zoo in the U.S. is evolving to embrace a mission of conservation and education. Here's how that affects the ...

The U.S. National Park Service says understanding the bear’s behaviour can be the difference between life and death ...

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

With climate change warming the planet, the Arctic ice is melting at an alarmingly rapid rate. In fact, according to NASA, ...

Kaxwaan Éesh George Davis: Xóots aas daax̱ kei wdlitl’ét’. The brown bear climbed a tree. You can hear each installment of ...

There were instances where a bear would come outside, appear to think “Screw this, it’s too cold,” and head back in after less than a minute. Polar Bears and Brown Bears Have an Ancient ...

ONTARIO, Canada (WKRC) - A man was seriously injured after he jumped onto a polar bear to prevent it from attacking his wife. An unnamed Canadian couple left their home at around 5 a.m. on Tuesday ...

Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus ... They share similar features with the Kamchatka brown bear but have some distinct physical traits. American Black Bears (Ursus americanus) are the most common ...

Brown bears have one layer of fur ... The research team concludes that the gene differences associated with polar bear adaptions may have been influenced by bears living during the end stages ...

However, the brown bear genomes had multiple alleles. This suggests that these genes had already been selected for in some ancient polar bear ancestor, and polar bears had adaptations for Arctic ...

I was beginning to despair of getting within bow range of a brown bear, and after what had happened with the polar bear on the ice off Point Barrow, I didn’t relish going home from this hunt without a ...