“It’s not normal. It’s not natural.” But the bears that do hibernate, like the ones in Yellowstone, wake up ravenously hungry. For months, they’ve been relying on fat stores built up ...

Bears, wolves and deer — oh my! A Belgian zoo is offering guests a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to share a room with ...

The Arctic Circle doesn't even see the sun for six months of the year, so what we could consider to be summer is just a brief ...

The Polar Bear Plunge takes place at noon on New Year’s Day every year at the boat ramp below the Red Wolf Crossing Bridge on ...

Scientists believe that the polar bears and brown bears diverged fairly recently in evolutionary terms–within roughly the past one million years. Just how ... for a follow up study.” ...

On the way back to the ship, I wondered whether I should have anchored the camera, just in case ... a crew member woke us up. He had spotted a polar bear approaching in the distance under the ...

A midnight wake-up call in the Arctic ... firing it up just in time to speed out of danger. As the snowmobile roared away, the polar bear slowed its pursuit and eventually gave up the chase.

Hundreds of people woke up on New Year's Day to brave the 26th Annual Waukegan Polar Bear Plunge ... year," participant Brandon Ewing said. It's just going towards something really great and ...

But no one could have been more excited to wake up to a ... Portland’s beloved polar bear sibling duo — rustling around in the snow Thursday morning, and it’s just as cute as it sounds.

"They just understand the context a lot more than, say, myself or another filmmaker from the south coming up to these places," he said. "The wealth of knowledge that Inuit have of polar bears, ...