Polar bears are far more ancient than even the most recent estimate of 600,000 years old, an international research team announced on July 23...

A seal and a polar bear were washed away as flooding in Duluth, Minnesota, inundated two-thirds of the Lake Superior Zoo, drowning at least 11 animals...

Polar bears, thought to be at least 150,000 years old as a species, have ancestry going back at least four times that long, a recent study has revealed...

The cornucopia of images and lush cinematography, a mix of time-lapse photography and live action, that is Frozen Planet has finally arrived on our side of the Pond...

This time last year the Inuit in Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut territory, were battling the Arctic equivalent of a heat wave: Temperatures hovering around freezing were making ro...

The BBC has posted graphic photos of an adult polar bear eating a cub that have intensified concerns that global warming or climate change is threatening the survival of the specie...

The Canadian government has listed polar bears as a “species of special concern” under the Species at Risk Act, a move that has various people up in arms, though for opposing reaso...

It may be upwards of 70 degrees in Tampa, but that won’t stop the polar bears from arriving there on Tuesday night—at least photos of them...

Why would an endangered animal not under threat from poaching need a special area designated in order to survive?...

As the world’s human population soars (it may soon hit 7 billion), animals and plants are increasingly jockeying for living space on Earth’s limited real estate...