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

An event that started 40 years ago with less than two dozen people jumping in the water on New Year’s Day has evolved into the Polar Bear Dip we know today. WKRG News 5 spoke with two of the men ...

The 32nd annual Polar Bear Plunge at Seaside Heights drew 7,500 polar plungers who walked, ran or briefly submerged into the Atlantic Ocean, officials said.

Sunday’s Polar Plunge raised $1.7 million for the Special Olympics and Special Children’s Charities. Participants did stretches, jumping jacks and drank booze to prepare their bodies for the ...

Costume contest Polar Plunge emcee Greg Moore, in the blue fuzzy hat, interviews Gary Daniels, center, who entered the event’s costume contest dressed like WKRP’s Les Nessman. Other costume ...

Polar bears spend their days jumping from ice into water ... Nanophysicist Bodil Holst got interested in studying polar bear fur while watching a German quiz show. BODIL HOLST: In that quiz ...

A sneak peak of a new episode of National Geographic's Incredible Animal Journeys shows two polar bear cubs exploring the outdoors for the first time Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...