Polar bears spend about 50% of their time hunting, and only two out of ten seal hunts are successful. If no seals can be found, these apex predators will eat anything they can get, including ...

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 ...

A polar bear has been shot dead in a remote Icelandic village, the latest casualty of growing tensions between humans and the Arctic mammals. Polar bears are the world's largest land carnivore ...

Two-year-old twin polar bears Kallik (pronounced Kah-LEEK), left, and Kallu (Kah-LOO) take a swim during their public debut ...

Both poles are home to a variety of seal and whale species, but only the Arctic is home to the largest bear on Earth, the polar bear. Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) and their cubs can be found ...

Kallik and Kallu made their public debut at the St. Louis Zoo on March 25. Kallik and Kallu: The twin polar bear brothers are ...

She is an expert on the evolution of the polar bear, having co-led an international effort to sequence the genomes of the polar bear and brown bear. That study, published in 2012, suggested that polar ...