Despite the challenges, researchers have established benchmarks for grizzly bear speed, black bear speed, and polar bear speed. Here’s what we know: The grizzly bear, or brown bear, is the fastest ...

Even polar bears, the largest land carnivores ... These overlapping active times heighten the risk of surprise encounters, where a bear's speed becomes even more alarming. Read more: Everything ...

Researchers have captured extremely rare footage of polar bear cubs leaving their snowy dens for the first time. The footage, taken on the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard, shows a mother polar bear ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Some of 2461 polar swimmers get out of the water after breaking a ...

Researchers use remote camera footage and satellite collars to gain new insights into polar bear denning behavior and cub survival. The denning period is the most critical time in a polar bear’s life.

Haley, the 22-year-old polar bear, left Memphis Zoo in Tennessee over the weekend in preparation for her new home in Michigan. Lately, two polar bears have been part of the Detroit Zoo collection, a ...

The extremely rare footage was captured by remote cameras deployed in the Arctic mountains for nearly a decade.

The great white polar bear is the youngest and largest of the world's bear species — a mighty hunter and fierce defender of its young that's among the world's most vulnerable animals. Two-thirds of ...