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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

2009). Increased long-distance swimming and drowning linked to sea-ice loss: Surveys during September 2004 in the Southern Beaufort Sea reported 14 of 55 polar bears (25%) in open water, of which 4 ...

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 ...

with frozen seas melting into open water, shrinking hunting grounds. In the Nineties it was rare to see a polar bear; since May, it has been a weekly occurrence. Bears are "extraordinarily ...

This record-setting event beat the previous global record of 1,799 participants, which was set in Poland in 2015 during the XIIth Ice Swimmers Convention.