If you have never seen polar bears play, then you have not lived a full life. These massive creatures are as playful as ...

A Tik Tok of polar bear Laerke caused some concerns, but zoo staff said she is a “special needs” bear who often displays that ...

to take a polar bear plunge. You might think you've been in freezing water before, especially if you've ever taken a swim in the cold crystalline spring waters found in the Florida panhandle.

When the bear slipped into the water, he just waited. 'There was just a flat, world of water and ice and this polar bear swimming lazily around me. I could hear her slow, regular breathing as she ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest ... sense of smell they can detect a seal in the water beneath a metre of compacted snow, and from almost a kilometre away. Adults are strong swimmers – they can ...

Zoo workers tossed rescue rings toward the woman to hoist her out and distract polar bears swimming nearby ... At one point the woman fell back into the water and was grabbed by a bear before ...

We must also take into account that polar bears have been documented swimming up to 320kms (about 200 miles). A polar bear in the water, even one far from land or ice, is not always a polar bear that ...

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 ...