The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit around Earth chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator — a plush white *polar* bear. But given that the four-member Fram2 crew is ...

A popular Arctic-themed exhibit at Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park Zoo is getting provincial funding to help its polar bears stay cool. Manitoba environment minister Mike Moyes announced Wednesday ...

Tallinn Zoo welcomed polar bear sisters Skadi and Kaja on Wednesday, and by the next day, they were already exploring, adapting, and playfully settling into their new enclosure. The sisters ...

The “Polar Bear” as he’s been aptly named by the Queens Faithful has been to the plate 82 times (as of April 21) during which he’s hit 6 home runs, 24 runs batted in, a .341 batting ...

The 62-year-old seal harvester was driving with his wife in West Saint Modeste, N.L., on Thursday when a massive polar bear strolled casually across the road toward a clutch of houses. Log In or ...

Fat soluble vitamin A is the most dangerous of all the vitamins; people have died from liver damage due to vitamin A overdoses, usually Arctic explorers who ate polar bear liver. If Mr. Kennedy ...

In a detailed post, Wang shared that he did not even realize they were in space until he set free a stuffed polar bear named Tyler, the mission’s zero-gravity indicator. “If I hadn’t set ...

One male polar bear, bony after a season without seal blubber, struggles along the slushy edge, haunches soaked, nearly slipping into the sea. We are on Gordon Point, in northern Manitoba ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Trump administration appears to be leaving no stone unturned with its sweeping tariffs around the globe, from rocky outcrops home to polar bears in the Arctic ...

Siku, a polar bear at Lincoln Park Zoo, developed allergies to various substances including human hair dander (Credit: Lincoln Park Zoo) It may be that zoo animals are so well cared for they ...