The most complete bear ever recovered from Siberia’s frozen ground looks less like a fossil and more like a sleeping animal ...

As the Arctic warms and sea ice disappears, polar bears are being pushed into conditions they have never faced before. Their hunting grounds are shrinking, food is becoming harder to find, and their ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There once used to be up to 10,000 grizzly bears roaming California, but they eventually disappeared from ...

Russian scientists discovered the full carcass of a now-extinct species of bear earlier this month, its snout locked in a snarl after millennia in the frozen ground. “It is completely preserved, with ...

A genetic analysis of polar bears in southeast Greenland found that genes related to heat-stress, aging, and metabolism are behaving differently compared to polar bears in more northern regions.

When female polar bear X33991 emerged from her maternal den in northeastern Manitoba this spring, she was accompanied by just ...

Scientists are studying the expansion of black bears throughout Ohio. For the first time in state history, they put a GPS collar on a female black bear in Ashtabula County, according to the Ohio ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. Fifteen years after polar bears were listed ...

The warming of the Arctic is transforming not only its ice but also the genetics of its inhabitants. According to a study ...

Rodents are arguably the most used animal models in biological research. However, scientists can employ alternative animal models, which often possess unique traits or adaptations, to improve their ...

If you have taken one or more photographs of polar bears in the wild, noting the date and location of the images, you can participate in the largest-ever study to identify individual bears by their ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – A group of researchers say polar bears forced off melting sea ice will not find enough food to replace their current diet of fat-laden marine mammals such as seals, a ...