The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) publishes a “Red List” of creatures faced with extinction, and polar bears are listed as “vulnerable”, which means they face a high risk ...

Polar bears have taken over an abandoned Soviet polar research station on a small island off Russia's far north-eastern coast. Vadim Makhorov, a travel blogger, used a drone to film the bears roaming ...

Seamus McDonough ’27 is off to a great start in his junior year for the men’s cross country team. He finished second in the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin (CBB) Tri-Meet and took home the title in the Maine ...

Fat Bear Week, a March Madness-style contest that pits a dozen Alaskan brown bears against one another in single-elimination brackets, is now in its eleventh year.

While the zoo didn't share an exact date, Nora the polar will move to Wisconsin's Henry Vilas Zoo this fall. Nora will eventually be introduced to a male bear there, with the hope that she will ...

The Saint Louis Zoo said polar bear Kallik will move to Oregon later this fall to advance polar bear conservation.

Celebrities gathered in New York to attend the first ever Nat Gala, a brainchild of Gail Gallie - who is on a mission to make caring for nature cool.

A sperm whale lies on its side amid shards of polar pack ice, dead and decomposing, its mouth hanging open in a silent scream. The lateral image on a flat plain resembles a textbook’s illustration of ...

Special 3D morphological analyses of mandibles show that the extinct bear Ursus minimus, one of Europe’s oldest bear species, had a broad diet without specializing in insects - contrary to previous ...