These amazing images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show the Arctic animals at their fierce but adorable best ...

A grizzly bear named Emmett at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs was caught on camera lounging around, blissfully ...

The buzz of excitement at Berlin Zoo was abruptly interrupted by cries of panic and a loud splash as something dropped into the moat within the polar bear enclosure. To the shock of onlookers ...

Study reveals dramatic increases since the late 1980s, signaling potential future stress for bears already coping with a ...

Warming temperatures may be changing the ways ice forms, making it more likely to stick to and injure polar bears in two far north populations.

Related: Bleak photo of polar bear with plastic in its jaws in the remote Arctic shows pollution's 'pervasive grip' "The chunks of ice weren't just caught up in the hair," Laidre said.

The bird flu infected and killed a polar bear and walruses in the Arctic for the first time. Phocine distemper virus appeared in sea otters in Alaska, after killing thousands of European harbor ...

Rode and her colleagues looked to polar bear immune systems for crucial insights. The Chukchi Sea polar bear population was a perfect fit. These bears, native to the waters between Alaska and ...

One of the jumpers features a mountain cable car, while the other showcases a polar bear with skis, but both are equally ...

Little Rock is a muskox and Matt Waldron is an alpaca. They beat out their opponents, a mountain goat and an otter, and a ...

Grab your best bud for help in this new co-op challenge to help two adorable penguins, Bread and Fred, reach the top of the snowy summit.