Credit: Simon Gee/Kt Miller/Steven C Amstrup/Polar Bears International/Cover Images Researchers have revealed astonishing new insights into the lives of polar bear ... teach our kids at home.

The "surreal" snap beat out photos of majestic whales ... Courtesy of Christopher Paetkau A polar bear peacefully snoozing in a pillowy bed of flowers beat out some amazing shots to win the ...

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear ... that our images of this dying bear moved the ...