A happy day out to the zoo was shattered when a woman fell into the polar bear exhibit and started swimming towards the ...

A Canadian man is recovering from serious injuries after leaping onto a polar bear to protect his wife from being attacked, ...

Skadi, one of the polar bears we're tracking on the Polar Bear Tracker, has been recorded swimming at least 74km in one day - and maybe more. This is believed to be the first conclusive proof that ...

A total 2,461 bathers braved the frigid waters of the Czech Republic's second-largest lake to break a world record for the ...

take a swim during their public debut at the St. Louis Zoo on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. The two arrived in St. Louis earlier this month, in a trade with the Toledo Zoo for polar bear Kali.

A March-time polar bear plunge is not only a freezing dip for a good cause, it’s also a signal that spring is almost upon us. Each year, hundreds of people line up along the shoars of Olcott ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear ... are strong swimmers – they can ...