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 ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

Patience: A polar bear still-hunting on the sea ice of Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada. (Courtesy: Jenny E Ross) In the teeth of the Arctic winter, polar-bear fur always remains free of ice – but how?

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