The polar bear is one of the most impressive animals on Earth. It is the largest of the world’s eight bear species, and adult ...

Polar bears are apex predators with a hunting strategy built around high-calorie prey like seals, but extreme conditions can push them to consider alternative food sources. In rare cases, humans may ...

Life in the Arctic is becoming a constant balancing act. As climate change reshapes the environment, animals must make ...

As climate change reshapes Arctic food webs, ringed seals will swim into risky polar bear territory if the menu is varied ...

Ringed seals in northwest Greenland are swimming into zones where polar bears concentrate, trading safety for access to a ...

Twenty years on, relive the iconic scene from Sir David Attenborough's Planet Earth that changed our understanding of how polar bears adapt to survive.

Polar bears near the remote archipelago of Svalbard are getting heavier, not thinner, even as the sea ice they depend on continues to shrink. New research points to conservation history as a key ...

Polar bears depend on frozen ocean surfaces more than any other land predator. The ice functions as a platform where they hunt seals, their primary source of energy. Bears often wait beside breathing ...

“Just when you think you know everything there is to know, bears go right ahead and prove you wrong." ...

Sometimes you come across a photo of a bear sitting upright near a lake or on a mountain ridge, just staring out over the landscape. For a moment, it looks almost human, like someone who stopped ...