A dramatic video captured a man fleeing a charging polar bear in Norway after dropping his gun and hopping onto a snowmobile. The incident reportedly unfolded in Pyramiden – an Arctic town in th ...

Now, however, scientists have managed to capture rare footage of a polar bear mother and her cubs leaving their den in the Arctic for the first time. The video comes from Svalbard, the sparsely ...

An unnamed Canadian couple left their home at around 5 a.m. on Tuesday to search for their dogs outside, but they were instantly met with a polar bear sitting in their driveway. The bear lunged at ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

This followed decades of fierce debate between Democrats and Republicans about whether to allow extractive activities in the 7.7m-hectare (19m-acre) expanse, a haven for wildlife sitting on top ...

“Is that monitor for a baby polar bear?” That was my husband's reaction ... of my son standing when he was actually just sitting, and besides that I didn't get any rogue alerts.

The BBC has faced a series of fakery rows over the past few decades – with the most famous in 2011 when it was revealed scenes in Frozen Planet which apparently showed a polar bear giving birth ...

The Canadian town of Churchill has already had more than four times as many polar bear visitors this year compared with the same time last year, and many more could soon be on the way. When you ...

A small, fluffy and adorable polar bear cub wandered around its new home in Germany. Video shows the playful Arctic animal for the first time. The baby polar bear was born Dec. 19 at the Hagenbeck ...

Two critically endangered species, the California condor and the polar bear, have welcomed new life. The arrival of two California condors, now named Enya and Hulu, in a Mexico City zoo is cause ...

Iceland orcas are unexpectedly swimming with baby pilot whales, but it's unclear why. "Polar bear attacks on people are extremely rare," Lindsey Mangipane, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A polar bear that killed a young mother and her baby last month in western Alaska was likely an older animal in poor physical condition, but tests came back negative for ...