The polar bear is a carnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding landmasses. A boar (adult male ...

The bear moves like a silhouette across the landscape ... Neither albino nor polar bear, the spirit bear (also known as the Kermode bear) is a white variant of the North American black bear ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video ...

While you may not notice it unless you are looking at a polar bear and Kodiak bear side by side, there are some key ...

That's because polar bear fur is transparent and hollow.When light strikes the outer fur some of it is absorbed while the rest is scattered away. The result? The fur can appear as different colors ...

A father died protecting his children in a rare polar bear attack in Canada's northernmost territory of Nunavut. Aaron Gibbons, 31, was on Sentry Island, a popular fishing and hunting spot on the ...

The buzz of excitement at Berlin Zoo was abruptly interrupted by cries of panic and a loud splash as something dropped into the moat within the polar bear enclosure. To the shock of onlookers ...

The buzz of excitement at Berlin Zoo was abruptly interrupted by cries of panic and a loud splash as something dropped into ...

That is when he became known around the organization as Polar Bear. According to Alonso, the nickname came from former Mets teammate Todd Frazier back in 2019 (via New York Post): “In Spring ...

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 ...