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

Millions have seen the heart-wrenching video of a polar bear clinging to life, its white hair limply covering its thin, bony frame. Shot by Paul Nicklen and Cristina Mittermeier of the nonprofit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...