A polar bear accidentally killed another polar bear as zoo visitors watched on in a tragic case of rough play. A necropsy has ...

The victims of a polar bear attack on Tuesday in the remote Alaskan village of Wales include a 24-year-old woman and her 1-year-old son. According to a press release by the Alaska Department of ...

In 2011, a trip-wire designed to alert a group camping near Longyearbyen failed, and a polar bear "reported to be starving and emaciated" killed a 17-year-old British boy and injured four others.

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. We see evidence of the kill first: a shockingly broad spread of scarlet, probably the blood of a ringed seal, on snow ...

Kali, the polar bear, yawns on Tuesday ... Kali was orphaned at 6 months old when his mother was killed by a hunter in Alaska in 2013. The hunter noticed that the mother had been nursing, and ...

No one wants to see a hungry polar bear, which is why these latest findings and videos of polar bear activity will help determine how industries in the Arctic can coexist without disturbing a ...

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 ...

Meet the "pizzly" bear! The animal is a hybrid created by the mating of a grizzly bear and a polar bear — a pairing scientists found could be happening more often due to climate change.