Want a job in the great outdoors? You'll need mad firearms skills, 20-20 vision, a loud voice and a suitcase full of very warm clothes. And an appreci...
Meet Kali, possibly the world's cutest polar bear. Three-month-old Kali was being cared for by workers at Alaska Zoo after being handed over by bio...
A nine foot tall polar bear weighing 922 pounds (66 stone) has successfully undergone a root canal. Boris, a resident at Washington’s Point Defi...
Polar bears are in crisis. Human-induced climate change means that their icy habitat is fast disappearing and estimates made by leading scientists in the Arctic suggest that numbers of polar bears could fall by as much as two-thirds by 2050
A beloved polar bear in Buenos Aires City Zoo died from "hyperthermia" and shock at Christmas Eve fireworks, unable to adapt to the temperatures of Ar...
Knut the polar bear was loved the world over and left millions devastated when he died of a brain seizure in March 2011. But now his memory will li...
Drilling for oil in the Arctic should be stopped until there are stronger protections against spills which could devastate the environment, MPs said t...
A young polar bear hitches a ride A polar bear cub hitches a a piggy back ride from his mother during an Arctic swim. The cute cub clambered ...
Two visitors at Rotterdam Zoo have captured the moment a polar bear almost shatters a submerged pane of glass in his enclosure with a rock. The two...
In our time, we've discovered some astonishing bear-based wonders. There was the image of some Russian brown bears "working out" in front of a camera,...
Walker the polar bear got nose to nose with his new companion today as the pair had a playful wrestle in their shared enclosure. Four-year-old Arkt...
What is it about Germany that makes it so good at producing cute bears? Everyone remembers polar bear Knut's loveable beginning (if not his sad end...
Source: Barcroft Media Playfully clambering over their doting mother these polar bear cubs spring into action for the most sociable time of the ye...
The death of a schoolboy mauled to death by a polar bear while on an expedition in Norway could have been prevented, authorities have ruled. Horati...
Twin baby polar bears are getting ready to make their public debut in a zoo in north east China. The two male cubs are around three-months-old and can...
At a polar bear prison in Canada, the bears who wander down to the small town of Churchill too often are in for a big surprise. Held in tiny cells,...
These playful animals are showing humans what they really think in the best way they know how - by getting their tongues out. From a grumpy pig try...
A polar bear cub got the telling off a lifetime from his screaming mum at a zoo in Denmark. Christmas is a stressful enough time for polar bears ...
Nature documentaries never aim to project complete realism onto our screens. Killer whales don't actually chew on penguins in slow-motion. The Antarctic landscape doesn't glisten and sweep like a David Lean epic, its inhabitants are not permanently viewed through a cinematic filter that would make a tramp's mongrel look like the most majestic of all God's beasts.
Presenter Sir David Attenborough has defended the inclusion of archive footage in his hit TV wildlife documentary Frozen Planet. Outraged viewers c...
Sir David Attenborough has weighed into the Frozen Planet row to defend the use of footage of polar bear cubs which was not filmed in the Arctic, but ...
Today, we learned that every single polar bear we've been watching on Frozen Planet has, in fact, been David and Richard Attenborough walking around i...
BBC One always goes a bit crackers at Christmas, but this year it has surpassed itself. Never mind the five-star lineup, Nick Knowles et al - many...
Cannibal polar bears have left many open mouthed after a slaughterous beast was caught on camera with the bloody carcass of a polar cub swinging from ...
Britain's only polar bear is celebrating his third birthday today at his Highland home on Wednesday. The 58 stone furry animal enjoyed rolling arou...
