Bears look like textbook mammals, but hidden in their evolutionary history are two dramatic departures from the standard ...

Abraham Joffe has documented wildlife in the ocean and the Arctic in films including Ghosts of the Arctic, Our Oceans and Big ...

Today, polar bears live only on the northernmost stretches of ice and snow, but their roots may lie farther south -- in an area that is now Ireland. Sometime within the last 50,000 years, suggests a ...

Joanna Lynne Kelley. Photo by Jennifer Feitosa. Growing up in the woods of Santa Cruz, Joanna Lynne Kelley was constantly exposed to the beauty and diversity of nature. Surrounded by the variety of ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Polar bears have successfully adapted to severe climate change many times in the past and will likely adapt to future climate change as well, Professor Susan Crockford, an evolutionary biologist at ...

The tiny town of Churchill has two of Canada’s largest pieces of Arctic infrastructure, but years of neglect have left them ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

The dental development of modern bears does not follow the typical pattern seen in most mammals. The reason lies millions of ...

For decades, Coca-Cola has used polar bears to advertise and market one of the most popular soda brands in the world. Whether images of the Arctic animal are featured on packaging or star in ...