One of the great marvels of nature is how bears, the largest carnivore in North America, are able to hibernate all winter, ...

As the ultimate apex predator, it relies on strength, stealth, and an incredible sense of smell to hunt its primary prey—seals. In this video, we explore what makes polar bears such formidable ...

A polar bear’s diet consists mainly of seals. They feed on bearded, harp, hooded, and harbor seals, but the ringed seal is their most common prey. Polar bears use a method called “still ...

But wild polar bear fur can still change color to yellow, thanks to oils from their prey that stain the fur. Perhaps the most surprising thing about polar bears? Underneath all that hair ...

and whales that are their prey and where they will slowly starve to death. After finding nothing of value in the fuel drums, the polar bear waddled into the water and swam away. Paul worried that ...

A group of several hundred polar bears in south-eastern Greenland often catch seals by waiting outside their prey's breathing holes on blocks of floating freshwater ice from glaciers, in an ...

A polar bear! Its thick fur helps it to hide and keep warm in the freezing cold. Plus an Arctic fox. It can hear its prey, deep under the snow. And a bird! The snowy owl. They nest on the ground ...

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 ...

But wild polar bear fur can still change color to yellow, thanks to oils from their prey that stain the fur. Perhaps the most surprising thing about polar bears? Underneath all that hair ...