Rampant avian flu that has impacted millions of poultry birds and thousands of wild birds in the U.S. alone has now killed a polar bear for the first time ever recorded. The Alaska population of ...

A rare polar bear that was spotted outside a cottage in a remote village in Iceland was shot by police after being considered a threat, authorities said Friday. The bear was killed Thursday ...

“We’ll fly for a couple of hours and not find a bear,” Laidre says. Polar bears evolved to roam the ice, subsisting on seals; on land, they can’t hunt and mostly go without. But sea ice is ...

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Not too long ago ... and we were looking for seals and polar bears. NGM Maps When we anchored the boat at the fjord ...

Recent graduate Michaela Jones was told that a student during an exam had stared directly into one of the polar bears' eyes. Trance-like, the student had then gone "mad" and killed herself ...

THESE DAYS, NO animal except perhaps the wolf divides opinions as strongly as does the polar bear, top predator and sentinel species of the Arctic. But while wolf protests are largely a North ...

Polar bears don’t have to worry about skipping a wash day. The sebum, or natural oil, on the mammals’ fur helps them survive the harsh Arctic weather by making it hard for ice to stick to them ...

Polar bear cubs are incredibly cute — and amazingly elusive ... They leave their dens between February and April, depending on location and temperature. Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik ...