A new polar bear genetics study has come up with a relatively recent estimate for the time when those bears separated into a species apart from brown bears. The study, conducted by an international ...

A study published in the scientific journal PLOS One compared blood samples of polar bears in the Chukchi Sea from 1987 to ...

A polar bear in Alaska has reportedly become the first of its kind to die from H5N1 avian influenza. Gerlach explains that although bears typically eat seals and fish, it is possible that the virus ...

Polar bears depend on frozen ocean surfaces more than any other land predator. The ice functions as a platform where they hunt seals, their primary source of energy. Bears often wait beside breathing ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (InvestigateTV) — Staff at the Alaska Zoo performed a root canal on one of its polar bears after the bear broke a canine tooth. Kova, 4, shares an enclosure with another polar bear ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A polar bear chased ...

Nathan Gordon Jr. drove his truck on the spit right outside of Kaktovik in early March. He is the city mayor and leads the town's polar bear patrol program. Under his back seat, he had a shotgun, and ...