The polar bear has become a symbol for threatened wildlife, and its future in a warming world has created much controversy. The predator’s past is equally controversial. The evolutionary history of ...

Although the planet is currently home to some massive bears, prehistoric bears used to be much, much, bigger. Polar bears and ...

The study was published in the journal Annales Zoologici Fennici and the team will now conduct DNA studies to understand more about the prehistoric range of brown bears, and potentially polar ...

IN the icy and swampy pasts of the ancient British Isles, colossal creatures were free to roam. Much has changed in the millenniums since – with the largest wild mammal in the UK today being ...

Two-thirds of the world's polar bears could be extinct by 2050 if greenhouse gas-fueled global warming keeps melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. The Center has led the charge to save polar bears ...

“Knowing that over our lifetimes we sat there while the polar bears became extinct is really quite an immoral legacy to leave for future generations,” said Dr Peter Ewins, WWF-Canada's director of ...

U of T Scarborough researchers have directly linked population decline in polar bears living in Western Hudson Bay to shrinking sea ice caused by climate change.

Researchers from the US Geological Survey have documented the first evidence of long distance swimming by polar bears, according to a BBC Earth News report. Researchers from the US Geological Survey ...

The long-extinct creature was roughly 6.5ft tall ... dating back to between 500,000 and 125,000 years ago. Polar bears may have also been on the prowl some 50,000 years ago, in an ancient Scotland ...