These amazing images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show the Arctic animals at their fierce but adorable best ...

In a rare encounter, a polar bear was spotted near a remote cottage in Iceland-a sighting that quickly turned dangerous.

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 ...

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 ...

Many of the polar bear paws they examined also displayed other, serious wounds, including multiple bleeding ulcerations. They suspect the wounds were painful because the bears sometimes flinched ...

Every year a small town in Canada gets a sudden influx of polar passersby as the world’s largest bear (that begins life as a fluffy stick of butter) embarks on its annual migration. The big move ...

If you're a human being, odds are you've seen at least one picture of a bear of some kind and you've gone, "oh, I would so ...

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 volunteers are staff who are ordinarily employed elsewhere at the airport, many of them in security. They are available on winter standby for airside snow clearance and are termed “polar bears”.

A polar bear has killed a man in Norway's Arctic Spitsbergen island, local officials say. The attack occurred at a campsite near Longyearbyen, the main town of the island in the Svalbard archipelago.

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 ...