With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer ...

Polar bears are not only the largest bears, they are the largest land predators in the world. So, when it comes to size, how ...

NORWAY — 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 ...

A man walking in the snow faced a terrifying encounter with a massive polar bear. Moments after spotting each other, the bear ...

The predator bolted but soon slumped into the snowdrifts, its broad frame motionless beneath the Arctic sky. The dramatic pursuit formed part of a pioneering research mission in Norway's Svalbard ...

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, was the mother of Hamish ...

A female skier was mauled by a polar bear after the animal dragged her from her tent in the middle of the night in the Canadian Arctic. The unnamed woman had been camping at Auyuittuq National ...