The polar bear is a carnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding landmasses. A boar (adult male ...

What would you do if you encountered a polar bear in the wild? Polar bears are the largest bear species on Earth. Adult females usually weigh between 400 and 700 pounds, but some can reach up to ...

A happy day out to the zoo was shattered when a woman fell into the polar bear exhibit and started swimming ... and must ...

The mother of the first polar bear cub to be born in the UK in 25 years ... Victoria is the oldest of park's four bears, with Brodie and adult males Arktos and Walker being the others.

BERLIN, Germany (CNN)-- A polar bear attacked a woman at Berlin Zoo Friday afternoon after she climbed a fence and jumped into its habitat during feeding time, police said Saturday. One adult ...

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video ...

vii + 235 pp. Pagano, A.M. et al. 2011. Long-distance swimming events by adult female polar bears in the southern Beaufort and Chukchi seas. Talk presented at the July 2011 International Bear ...

Adult bears generally weigh between 100 and 635 kg (220 and 1,400 lb). Its largest subspecies, the Kodiak bear, rivals the polar bear as the largest member of the bear family and as the largest ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...

The great white polar bear is the youngest and largest of the world's bear species — a mighty hunter and fierce defender of its young that's among the world's most vulnerable animals. Two-thirds of ...