A female polar bear at the Canadian Polar Bear Habitat in Cochrane has died suddenly. Ten-year-old Taiga passed away yesterday morning. Taiga had been living at the habitat for almost a year but her ...

Polar Bears own the top spot as the largest land carnivore. They can weigh up to 2,200 pounds (the biggest bear ever recorded ...

Polar bears are the only mammal known to actively hunt humans. Still, every year Canada’s most feared, and revered, residents attract thousands of tourists from around the world. Not only do these ...

Polar bears are intensely curious animals. That curiosity often brings them into contact with people and can put both species at risk from one another. Between 2011 and 2021, research colleagues and I ...

Norwegian authorities on Tuesday announced that avian influenza has been documented in a polar bear for the first time in ...

A polar bear found dead on Norway’s Svalbard has tested positive for highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu, the first confirmed case in a polar bear in Norway and Europe, after the virus was also detected i ...

Polar bears on ice in Northern Canada. Nano-physicist Bodil Holst's interest in polar bear fur began while she was watching a German quiz show. "I learned that polar bears are invisible in infrared ...

Security camera footage from St. Anthony, Newfoundland, captures the incredible moment a wild polar bear repeatedly goes for a ride down a snowy embankment and has a very friendly encounter with the ...

Some polar bears face starvation as the Arctic sea ice melts because they are unable to adapt their diets to living on land, scientists have found. The iconic Arctic species normally feed on ringed ...

Nano-physicist Bodil Holst's interest in polar bear fur began while she was watching a German quiz show. “I learned that polar bears are invisible in infrared cameras, meaning their fur has the same ...