Grisly bear encounters leading to death and near-fatal injuries have made headlines around the world - here are some of the ...

A man who “leapt on” a polar bear to save his wife from an attack sustained serious injuries but is expected to fully recover, authorities in Canada’s remote Ontario said. The couple in the ...

But this was no flimsy piece of kit: it had been carefully engineered to resist attack from even the largest and most powerful polar bear. At least, we hoped it would. No one wanted to see it ...

Such bear patrols have long succeeded in reducing conflict. But this week, a polar bear attack killed a mother and her 1-year-old son in Wales, a tiny, remote Alaska whaling village whose bear ...

in an attack that "rattled a region well-versed" in polar bears, said The Guardian. The location was unusual for a bear, as was the fact that there were two involved. It is a harbinger of what ...

Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted a helpful clarification for Australian travelers, who had been warned by their government about Norwegian polar bear attacks. The good-humored ...

but the bear came towards him. A neighbor -- who saw the attack -- sprung into action, grabbed a gun, and shot and killed the bear. Neirer said he is doing okay after the attack and believes that ...

The Highland Wildlife Park's female bear Victoria has reached the grand old age of 28. Victoria is the mother of Hamish who was the first polar bear cub to be born in the UK in 25 years.

Wildlife ecologist Rae Wynn-Grant rates nine bear attacks in movies and TV shows, such as "Cocaine Bear," for realism. Wynn-Grant breaks down the accuracy of brown-bear and grizzly-bear attacks ...