The Heritage Railway and Carousel Company (HRCC) will be open this weekend (Saturday and Sunday), if the weather is ...

A polar bear’s skull and nose are also longer than a grizzly’s. But grizzlies have longer claws than polar bears—which are better for digging. A polar bear’s paws are better suited for ...

Perhaps Southeast Greenland is simply the place where the polar-bear endling will live out its species’ final days. About 26,000 polar bears are left in the wild, divided into 19 subpopulations ...

A rare polar bear that was spotted outside a cottage in a remote village in Iceland was shot by police after being considered a threat, authorities said Friday. The bear was killed Thursday ...

While you may not notice it unless you are looking at a polar bear and Kodiak bear side by side, there are some key ...

Why? For one thing, the light-phase bear ("phase" refers to color variations in bears) shown in the video is "clearly not a polar bear," York said. According to the wildlife educational ...

Nano-physicist Bodil Holst's interest in polar bear fur began while she was watching a German quiz show. "I learned that polar bears are invisible in infrared cameras, meaning their fur has the ...

MORE: Prolonged ice-free periods putting Hudson Bay polar bear population at risk of extinction: Study The melting of the sea ice has shortened the polar bears' feeding season, which has resulted ...

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 ...

Calgary Zoo A polar bear has died after engaging in "rough play” with another polar bear at a Canadian zoo. The Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo announced in a news release on Tuesday, July 23 ...