Polar bears and snow leopards are both listed as vulnerable species by the World Wildlife Fund due to various threats, ...

Genetically, polar bears and grizzly bears aren’t all that different. Scientists believe that polar bears split from grizzly bears between 250,000 and 130,000 years ago. The two species are actually ...

For a long time, Dmitry Kokh had dreamed about photographing polar bears. That’s a lofty goal for a wildlife photographer but the way he sees it, if you devote so much time to an activity, your goals ...

The 700-pound female arrived on a FedEx flight, accompanied by a Washington zookeeper and a St. Paul veterinarian.

LOS ANGELES - All polar bears alive today are descended from a single female brown bear that most likely hailed not from Alaska - as widely presumed - but from Ireland, scientists said. The discovery, ...

All polar bears alive today are descended from a single female brown bear who most likely hailed not from Alaska -- as widely presumed -- but from Ireland, scientists announced in July. The discovery, ...

Republican efforts in Congress aim to roll back one of the U.S.’s longest-standing pieces of environmental legislation, the ...

The Oregon Zoo will soon say goodbye to Nora, a remarkable polar bear who enjoyed viral stardom as a cub and overcame all ...

Little One was born at the Cleveland Zoo in 1989. The second oldest male polar bear in the United States has died after outliving the median life expectancy for the species by more than 10 years. The ...

The northernmost town in the world, Longyearbyen, is 800 miles from the North Pole, but home to over 2,000 people.