Polar bears need lots of seal snacks — and a melting Arctic makes it hard to eat enough. In the spring, one polar bear needs to snarf at least one adult ringed seal, or 19 newborn pups, every 10 ...

Putting cameras on polar bears is a new technique, and going through the video was “amazing,” Dr. Pagano said. “To watch what a polar bear is actually doing in the wild was really gratifying.” ...

One good meal can last them days: A seal weighing 121 pounds can provide eight days worth of energy for a polar bear. When food is plentiful, adult polar bears only eat the fat and leave the rest ...

A British wildlife photographer has captured cool scenes of a polar bear seemingly doing yoga – and then chilling out. Paul ...

Polar bears spend about 50% of their time hunting, and only two out of ten seal hunts are successful. If no seals can be found, these apex predators will eat anything they can get, including ...

Most people don’t associate the Arctic with couture…and many people would cringe if told a jacket was made from polar bear (a threatened species), seal, or arctic fox. But then again, most ...

“A polar bear can eat 10 to 20 percent of its own body weight in one go, and on average needs to ingest the caloric equivalent to one adult ringed seal per 1 to 1.5 weeks in order to survive ...

David Attenborough cameraman Gordon Buchanan was once moments from death after a polar bear decided to attack as he filmed in Svalbard in the Arctic Circle for a BBC series.

On average, a male polar bear will weigh between 600 and 1200 pounds, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. However, some can reach up to 1700 pounds. A female polar bear is smaller ...

In the 1980s, polar bears were on land for about 110 days out of the year, with no need to eat terrestrial foods since the fat deposits they’d accumulate thanks to wintertime seal-hunting was ...

By mid-century, polar bears may not be able to survive as far south as Churchill, he said, a future also forecast in a 2012 review he co-authored with legendary polar bear researcher Ian Stirling.

A video collar captures a polar bear swimming in Hudson Bay near Churchill, Man., as part of a study led by the U.S. Geological Survey that tracked what polar bears eat and how much energy they ...