A creepy image of a polar bear in 2026 has gone viral this week and sparked a wild conspiracy theory on social media. The haunting photo of the bear, which is native to the Arctic and surrounding ...

When polar bears started coming to Churchill, tourists did too. And then suddenly, polar bears began to appear everywhere — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Polar bear safaris serve up a rare opportunity to meet Arctic man-eaters under the northern lights. Colby J Brokvist Polar bears are the only mammal known to actively hunt humans. Still ...

The Arctic is not the most hospitable place on Earth. Some Arctic animals like reindeer have several genetic adaptations to ...

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 ...

Change has broken, remade and continues to reshape the remote Canadian town of Churchill on the shore of Hudson Bay ...

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 ...