Polar bears are not only the largest bears, but they are also the largest land predators in the world. So, when it comes to size, how do polar bears measure up against some of the other top land ...

A slightly more reliable, but still visual, way to determine the sex of a polar bear is to watch it pee. If urine seems to be coming from the belly area, it might be a male; from the tail ...

The often repaired and revised original globe at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, however, depicts it without a tail, which would make it a polar bear. The first image of a polar bear ...

Belly flops, play bites and dunks! Polar bears Nora and Amelia Grey frolicked in the pool at Polar Passage on a sunny day.

A glimpse into the lives of the MOSAiC mission’s polar bear guards—and the powerful ... identifiable by its thick neck and short, pointed tail). Over the soft whir of clicking cameras, he ...

It's International Polar Bear Day! To celebrate the wonders of the ... Male polar bears can reach 8 to 11 feet (2.4 to 3.4 meters) from nose to tail and weigh up to a whopping 1,700 pounds ...

A rare polar bear that was spotted outside a cottage in a remote village in Iceland was shot by police after being considered a threat, authorities said Friday. The bear was killed Thursday ...

The skull of an ancient polar bear, nicknamed Bruno, was found on the coast of the Beaufort Sea in 2009. CREDIT: Photos by Pam Grove. “We found some variants that may have been selected in the ...

Either way, scientists determined the animal was the rare offspring of a polar bear that mated with a grizzly ... currently the fish hybridization happens at the tail end of the pike spawning ...