Some people even claim that polar bears hunt humans, but is this really true? What would you do if you encountered a polar bear in the wild? Polar bears are the largest bear species on Earth.

Polar bears hunt their preferred food of seals from the edge of sea ice, often living off fat reserves when no sea ice is present.

"Our findings also help us understand the subtlety of the steps taken by Inuit people to optimize hunting strategies to mimic ...

Although, like most polar bears the Grinch was opportunistic, she (and the other reindeer-hunting polar bears we have seen) appear fitter; enabling them to run at speeds of up to 8 m/s for an ...

Scientists have captured rare footage of female polar bears and ... to the sea ice to begin hunting,” Archer said. In the past, researchers have monitored polar bear denning behavior in some ...

It then states estimates in 2005 were 20,000 to 25,000 and then grew to between 22,000 and 31,000 in 2015. However, the claim that polar bear numbers have increased since the 1950s rests on thin ice, ...

Monitoring polar bear populations is important for their conservation and management, but is also challenging because they occupy vast, remote, and extreme regions. With the loss of sea ice, ...