In Churchill, Canada, polar bears gather by the hundreds in the fall, waiting for the nearby bay to freeze. The human ...

Regular folks who care about wildlife generally know that climate change is bad for polar bears, but they have only vague ...

Credit: Simon Gee/Kt Miller/Steven C Amstrup/Polar Bears International/Cover Images Researchers have revealed astonishing new insights into the lives of polar bear cubs by studying them as they emerge ...

Researchers tracking wild polar bears in northern Canada witnessed something exceedingly rare this fall: a mother bear adopting a cub that was not biologically her own. The five-year-old mother bear ...

Scientists tracking a female polar bear in Canada’s Western Hudson Bay were stunned when she reappeared mysteriously with an extra cub that wasn’t hers. In a population studied for more than 45 years, ...

A mother polar bear has made the decision to adopt - a move that scientists say is extremely rare - and the new family was caught on video. Researchers had tagged the five-year-old mother, also known ...

Brookfield Zoo, which has cared for generations of polar bears, hopes to offer guidelines for an area where mothers den at ...

BERLIN -- Germany's oldest zoo, which is home to the world's largest variety of species, welcomed an adorable polar bear cub. Polar bear mother Tonja gave birth to her cub on Dec. 1. The cub has ...

The 5-week-old cub began to open her eyes Friday. — -- A sleeping polar bear cub at an Ohio zoo was caught apparently dreaming and the zoo got the adorable slumber on video. In the video, the cub ...

POWELL, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio zoo is celebrating the birth of a polar bear cub. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium says the cub was born early Thursday morning to 13-year-old Aurora. The zoo says polar bear ...

Nuremberg zoo reverts decision and rescues remaining polar bear cub. PASSAU, Germany, Jan. 9, 2008 — -- Two days after Nuremberg zoo officials informed the public that two cubs born five weeks ...