The polar bear is classified as Vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List. **This post is an update from a previous polar bear fact sheet from NATURE.

The majestic polar bear leaps across the water, landing on an ice sheet with a semi-belly flop. That’s one of the sights tourist Emma Postolec caught during an Arctic cruise on Sept. 27.

THE ARCTIC CIRCLE - The majestic polar bear leaps across the water, landing on an ice sheet with a semi-belly flop. That’s one of the sights tourist Emma Postolec caught during an Arctic cruise ...

Splitting from brown bears in Asia only around 150,000 years ago. The oldest known fossil of a polar bear is less than 100,000 years old. Polar bears have decreased in size as they evolved.

Ryan Kunz was sleeping in his tent on the ice when the polar bear wandered into camp. At 10,500 feet high, in the middle of the Greenland Ice Sheet more than 200 miles from the nearest coast, the ...

The emaciated polar bear, which the researchers observed from the deck of a ship, was hunting a group of three bearded seals that were lounging about on a sheet of floating ice, called an ice floe.

All polar bears alive today are descended from a female brown bear that most likely hailed not from Alaska, as widely presumed, but from Ireland, scientists said. The discovery, reported online ...

A polar bear, the main predator of seals, stalks a seal hole in Frans Josef Land, the world's most northern archipelago, now designated as part of the Russian Arctic National Park.