Polar bears don’t have to worry about skipping a wash day. The sebum, or natural oil, on the mammals’ fur helps them survive the harsh Arctic weather by making it hard for ice to stick to them ...

A man dropped his gun and managed to outrun a polar bear on a snowmobile in a heart-racing moment caught on camera in the ...

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 ...

Video footage from the Arctic town of Pyramiden on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard shows the polar bear charging at a man who fired at him.

An international team of scientists unlocked the anti-icing secret of polar bear fur, a discovery that could revolutionize ...

Two-thirds of the world's polar bears could be extinct by 2050 if greenhouse gas-fueled global warming keeps melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. The Center has led the charge to save polar bears ...

A video captured a polar bear charging at a person in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, forcing them to drop their gun and race ...

Wildlife experts are responding to concerns about one of their polar bear’s health and treatment after a recent video gained ...

After a couple of days of skiing through rough sea ice along Ellesmere's north coast, the experienced pair reached Cape Columbia (83˚07'). Earlier this week, they encountered a polar bear that ...

Polar bears hunt their preferred food of seals from the edge of sea ice, often living off fat reserves when no sea ice is present.

Today, the island harbours the greatest concentration of polar ... bears swim to its shores Every summer, an estimated thousand or more bears swim to its shores, as they wait for the sea ice ...

It’s an instinctual behavior for the Arctic natives to break through the ice to capture their food. “Laerke does some things that are all-natural polar bear behavior, but she’ll do them ...