Lars Barthel Polar bears that were forced to find food on land -- by foraging on berries and eating birds -- lost about the same amount of weight as the bears that simply fasted, proving that to ...

An estimated bite force of 1,200 PSI is what the polar bear uses to eat seals. When food is scarce ... Gorillas feed mainly on plants, shoots, and fruit, and they use their large molars and ...

Polar bears generally live and hunt alone, though they can be quite social too. They mainly eat seals – using their remarkable sense of smell they can detect a seal in the water beneath a metre of ...

Alaska Zoo polar bear Cranbeary ... she could share an enclosure with a potential new bear bestie. Before her capture, Kova had been spotted eating an Arctic fox, a species known to sometimes ...

"It really suggests to us that that these bears can't eat and swim at the same time." Key polar bear facts There are about 26,000 polar bears left in the world, with the majority in Canada.

However, the bigger danger is to the bear, stemming from human behavior. Bears who lose their fear of humans have a shorter life expectancy than bears who fear humans and eat only their natural diet.

By Austyn Gaffney Polar bears in the southern Hudson Bay could go extinct as early as the 2030s because the sea ice that helps them hunt for food is thinning, a new study suggests. “We’ve ...

A new study that analyzed the genetics of eight known grizzly-polar bear hybrids found that they can all be traced back to a ...

Most polar bears live within the Arctic Circle, so how do they keep warm in extremely low temperatures? Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are well known for their white fur, which makes them almost ...

What do you call a hybrid created when a grizzly bear and a polar bear mate? The answer might soon be common knowledge, as climate change has pushed these two species of bears together.

"The dogs will have something to eat," he said proudly. Madsen is one of Ittoqqortoormiit's 10 professional hunters. Only those who live completely from the hunt are allowed to shoot polar bears.