Polar bears spend about 50% of their time hunting, and only two out of ten seal hunts are successful. If no seals can be found, these apex predators will eat anything they can get, including ...

Polar Bear Week, which runs from Oct. 27 to Nov. 2 this year, is a time to celebrate and learn how you can help polar bears ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...

“Unwashed, greasy hair made it much harder for ice to stick. In contrast, when the polar bear fur was washed and the grease largely removed it performed similarly to human hair, to which ice ...

What do vegetarian polar bears eat? Iceberg lettuce, of course. Except, as presenter Victoria Gill discovered, that's nearly true, but not quite. Where The Polar Bears Wait, a half-hour passion ...

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video ...

"We found that polar bear hair was very fatty, much faster than human and other mammals that have been studied. We found in particular an abundance of this cholesterol, cholest-5-en-3-beta-ol ...