"A polar bear can smell a human from miles away." Video captures chilling moment polar bear approaches massive rig: 'They are extremely dangerous' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Polar bears are powerful predators but do they actually hunt humans as prey? This video explores real-life encounters and ...

In conservation, the term "flagship species" is used to refer to animals that represent something bigger, like an entire ...

Siku, a polar bear at Lincoln Park Zoo, developed allergies to various substances including human hair dander (Credit: ...

A photographer's iconic shots of polar bears in abandoned buildings on a Russian island shine a spotlight on wider changes in ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Despite the sunscreen misinformation you might see online, ancient humans did face problems from the sun’s harmful rays ...

Fram2 crew was surprised to not see any evidence of human activity at the South Pole from 285 miles above. For the first time in history, a crew of four people are getting to see Earth's North and ...

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.

Another polar bear, one of the three mascots for the Sochi ... and flying over Earth's polar regions for the first time in human history, the astronauts (and zero-g indicator) will return home ...

The four private space travelers flying around the Earth’s poles this week had a vomit-filled first day in space, according ...

Its history of human occupation dates back over a thousand ... and pack ice are home to one of the world’s most important polar bear populations, but as the ice recedes due to climate change ...

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 ... the world's first human spaceflight in ...