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 lounges in a field of pink flowers. An arctic fox skips gingerly as the thaw of spring moves in. And a baby chimpanzee sips a bottle. The 2024 Nature Photography Contest showcases the ...

and may even point to the presence of polar bears living in Scotland during the Last Ice Age. Professor Kate Britton, from the University of Aberdeen, said, "We have identified several samples ...

Why did the brown bear evolve into the polar bear? Animation describing how ... went to a region which was cold and inhabited by seals living on ice. The bears were hungry but their paws weren ...

The polar bears living in Canada’s Hudson Bay will disappear within the next few decades unless humans halt global warming, according to new research. If global temperatures increase between 1.6 ...

The cub recently made its public debut at the Royal Zoological Society's Highland Wildlife Park in Scotland Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.

For example, right now we do not know to which population belong the polar bears living on the Bear Islands Archipelago, we do not know their habitats and movements. <...> The total cost of the ...