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 ...

Paetkau's photo, titled "Polar Bear Amid Fireweed Blooms," not only earned Paetkau the top slot in the online contest, which is judged by a "jury" of photographers, but also the prize that comes ...

This can be because they have an injury (as may be the case with the polar bear in the photo) or because the animal is old and has lost some of its canines, she said. Steven Amstrup, chief ...

The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear.