A man dropped his gun and managed to outrun a polar bear on a snowmobile in a heart-racing moment caught on camera in the ...

Researchers have captured extremely rare footage of polar bear cubs ... toward the sea ice, where mothers teach their cubs to ...

Neil Ever Osborne On the bay this fall morning, there’s a wind-carved rim of ice and a gathering of floes. One male polar ... Just in time, a neighbor appeared, striking the bear’s head ...

"We were super surprised because we never expected to meet polar bears so far to the south. At this time of the year, they should be on the sea ice already ... captures a bear in the entrance ...

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Not too long ago ... beside a hole in the Arctic ice, a polar bear found something new—Audun Rikardsen’s camera ...

they spend most of their time at sea. Their scientific name means “maritime bear”, and derives from this fact. Polar bears hunt their preferred food of seals from the edge of sea ice ...

The great white polar bear is the youngest and largest of the world's bear species ... by 2050 if greenhouse gas-fueled global warming keeps melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. The Center has led ...