Some might call it fate. Just one day after the zoo in Louisville, Kentucky opened a brand new polar bear exhibit with room for new bears, oil field workers thousands of miles away in Alaska ...

The Trump administration is granting the Alaska oil industry’s request to update regulations that could allow the ...

It's a beautiful story out of the arctic to end your year on a good note. A polar bear mom took on a second (presumably orphaned) cub in only the 13th recorded case of adoption for this species in the ...

A key polar bear population has decreased in the past decade due to an increase in deaths of young cubs, a new U.S.-Canada study says. Researchers are primarily blaming shrinking sea ice from global ...

When scientists in Canada came across a female polar bear with two cubs in the fall, they made an unusual discovery: One of the young was not her own offspring but instead a rare documented example of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO — Shortly after her arrival last fall, Amelia Gray met Hudson, and the pair hit it off immediately. They touched their ...

Researchers in northern Canada have observed a rare case of polar bear adoption, capturing video footage of a wild female bear caring for a cub that was not her own. "Cub adoption is relatively rare ...