The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) publishes a “Red List” of creatures faced with extinction, and ...

Polar bears have taken over an abandoned Soviet polar research station on small island off Russia's far northeastern cost.

A new polar bear has made its debut at Brookfield Zoo Chicago. Amelia Gray, an 8-year-old female from Oregon Zoo, explored the Great Bear Wilderness habitat for the first time on Wednesday. “Amelia ...

Brookfield Zoo is set to welcome a new animal to its facility later this year, as a female polar bear will make her debut in coming months. Amelia Gray is an 8-year-old female polar bear, and she will ...

So it’s back to the drawing board. On Thursday, Brookfield Zoo announced that Amelia Gray, an 8-year-old female, will be making the move from the Oregon Zoo to Chicago’s suburbs, where she’ll also be ...

Two longtime San Diego Zoo animals were put down on the same day, marking a tragic day for one of California’s most famous zoos. On Thursday, the zoo “made the difficult and compassionate decision to ...

Polar bears are synonymous with the whiteness of their fur. However, their fur is not actually white. It's transparent and covers black skin. Why, then, do they not look like black bears? The polar ...

If you have never seen polar bears play, then you have not lived a full life. These massive creatures are as playful as newborn puppies, while being just as curious. As this video shows, these ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The San Diego Zoo has responded to a video circulating on social media of a polar bear that is visibly drooling, panting and lethargic in its enclosure. Spring is mating ...

The incident took place in the Arctic Circle on Sunday, April 27 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously appeared ...

A dramatic video captured a man fleeing a charging polar bear in Norway after dropping his gun and hopping onto a snowmobile. The incident reportedly unfolded in Pyramiden – an Arctic town in the ...

Fans of the frozen food company Birds Eye may recall there was a time when the brand had another mascot that wasn’t the pioneering Captain Birds Eye. The mascot’s name was Clarence, and he was a polar ...