Can you believe that polar bears were housed in Madras briefly during the mid-1950s and 1960s? To mark the centenary of the Madras Zoo, started as a menagerie in 1855 at Egmore and later shifted ...

The UK's oldest polar bear has been euthanised due to her deteriorating health, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) has said. Victoria, who was 28, had been receiving geriatric care at ...

Because polar bears live in the freezing regions of the Arctic, far from most humans, they don’t often run into dogs. However, in Churchill, Manitoba, things are quite different. Often called ...

The dramatic pursuit formed part of a pioneering research mission in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, where scientists, for the first time, took fat tissue biopsies from polar bears to study the ...

With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquiliser dart at a polar bear. The predator bolted but soon slumped into the ...

With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer dart at a polar bear. The predator bolted but soon slumped into the ...

Nunavut’s new polar bear licence plates have been unveiled. Community Services Minister David Akeeagok held up the new design Tuesday during meetings with Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. at the Aqsarniit ...