Bears hold endless fascination for people—they’re huge, and intelligent, and they look oh so cuddly. It’s easy to imagine ...

The last time a polar bear was taken from the wild was in 2013, when an orphaned bear named Kali in Point Lay was brought to the Alaska Zoo and then moved to the Saint Louis Zoo.

Tasul, a polar bear who lived at the Oregon Zoo, is seen in this 2013 photo wearing a collar that collects data about her activity to help scientists who study the behavior of polar bears in the wild.

You probably know polar bears as the big white animals roaming the Arctic, but there’s a lot about them that doesn’t make it into the usual stories. They deal with extreme cold, hunt in ways no other ...

Polar bear cubs typically stay with their mothers for at least two years. The last time a polar bear was removed from the wild in Alaska was in 2013. That male cub, orphaned in Point Lay, resides ...

Cannibalism on the Rise Among Polar Bears in the Wild, Researchers Say. Researchers presented two leading hypotheses as to why the behavior has reportedly increased. By. Benjamin VanHoose.

Every polar bear counts these days as fewer than 31,000 of them are left on Earth, according to the World Wildlife Fund. Added Gorban, “The shift workers saved its life, the cub had no chance to ...

An orphaned polar bear was “removed from the wild” in Alaska, wildlife officials said. After the bear was spotted roaming alone on Nov. 24 in the Prudhoe Bay area, biologists went to observe ...