It’s hard to look at a polar bear and not feel a mix of awe and alarm. They’re massive and built for survival on Arctic ice.

The two cubs, born in November 2024, are captured playing in fresh snow at Hungary’s Sóstó Zoo in a viral moment that has ...

Wildlife encounters have a unique power to reshape how people see the world and their place within it. Observing animals in ...

Polar bears are the largest land-based carnivores in the world. Seeing these magnificent mammals up close can be frightening, as one TikToker shows. One TikToker (@literallyunbound) shared a video of ...

While on a photography assignment in Norway, the crew made a crucial decision while sailing through the Arctic ice pack in thick fog. The result was an “unforgettable encounter” with a pair of polar ...

A polar bear in Greenland may be shot dead next time it endangers people after several close encounters, including one where it bit the hand of a documentary team member, authorities said.

If you have taken one or more photographs of polar bears in the wild, noting the date and location of the images, you can participate in the largest-ever study to identify individual bears by their ...

When scientists in Canada came across a female polar bear with two cubs in the fall, they made an unusual discovery: One of the young was not her own offspring but instead a rare documented example of ...