Then, learn the disturbing truth about why polar bears are sometimes resorting to cannibalism. Wales, Alaska, where a woman and her young son were killed in a polar bear attack on January 17 ...

Living off one of the richest oceans in the Arctic, the polar bears by the Chukchi Sea appear to be thriving. Females are in good health and give birth to healthy cubs. Overall, this Alaskan ...

An upcoming series on polar bears in the eastern Arctic is as much about the enigmatic creatures as it is about the people ...

And it's getting lower on polar bears. There are now about 600 polar bears in the Western Hudson Bay, one of the most threatened of the 20 populations of the white beasts.

Polar bears also use the ice as a platform to catch the seals, Archer said. Without the ice, they are forced to hunt in open water, which is a difficult feat for the large apex predator.

Polar bears are the world's largest land carnivore, but attacks on humans are extremely uncommon – only 73 were recorded between 1870 and 2014, in Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia and the US.

Climate change putting Hudson Bay polar bears at risk, study finds 03:58. A pair of polar bears attacked and killed a worker at a remote government radar site in the Canadian Arctic, the facility ...

Polar bears are very closely related to brown bears, but have numerous key adaptations that help them survive in extreme arctic conditions. They have two layers of fur to help them keep warm and dry.

Polar bears feed like crazy in the ice-covered spring. They use the sea ice platforms as bases to hunt their favorite prey, high-fat seals, especially baby seals.

Polar bears feed like crazy in the ice-covered spring. They use the sea ice platforms as bases to hunt their favorite prey, high-fat seals, especially baby seals.

ON HUDSON BAY (AP) — Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada's massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff York scans a region that's on a low fat, low ice diet because of ...

It’s not just polar bears. University of Washington’s Laidre said some scientists think the smallest water zooplankton called copepods are the most important animals in the Arctic.