Today, polar bears live only on the northernmost stretches of ice and snow, but their roots may lie farther south -- in an area that is now Ireland. Sometime within the last 50,000 years, suggests a ...

Penguins and polar bears do not share icy landscapes. Penguins evolved in the Southern Hemisphere, adapting to cold waters ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The researchers say they’re unsure how the injuries will affect polar bear populations, but they speculate the injuries could reduce the bears’ ...

With the climate crisis causing a horribly dire plight for polar bears, the areas in which they may be naturally spotted are changing. Similarly, hunters have decimated grizzly bear populations in ...

A new study shows how much food polar bears leave behind — and how their decline threatens scavengers across the Arctic.

The Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo said that a necropsy report found that the bear drowned after sustaining a “crushing injury” to his trachea Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has ...