Arctic royalty gets a surprise challenger In popular culture and nature documentaries, the polar bear has always stood as the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polar bears are the world’s largest bear species, but even they usually target prey smaller and easier to overpower than a ...

As climate change reshapes Arctic food webs, ringed seals will swim into risky polar bear territory if the menu is varied enough. That’s the central finding of a new study published in Ecology Letters ...

In East Greenland, more and more polar bears are being killed in self-defense as the loss of their sea ice habitat pushes towards communities, where the predators pose a real threat to humans. In ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. From tracking invisible scent plumes on the wind to ...

Before wolf-bear-prey interactions can be fully understood, more studies on functional and numerical responses of wolf populations to various combinations of prey (caribou, sheep, beavers, and ...

The polar bear is one of the most impressive animals on Earth. It is the largest of the world's eight bear species, and adult males can weigh from about 772 to 1,433 pounds, with some exceptionally ...