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As a part of a polar bear breeding program, beloved 4-year-old Astra will be leaving Tacoma's Point Defiance Zoo for a new home at a zoo in the midwest Donald Trump health update issued after physical ...

The 4-year-old polar bear named Astra at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium will be relocated to another facility in the midwest, the zoo announced in a release. Guests are invited to say their ...

It’s a huge blow for Pete Alonso and the New York Mets after failing to make the playoffs despite their star-studded roster. Mets owner Steve Cohen spent more than $340 million on the team’s payroll ...

Drone video is giving us an up-close look at how polar bears have taken over a village of abandoned buildings on a small island off Russia’s coast. The buildings were once part of a Soviet-era ...

The Henry Vilas Zoo is getting ready to welcome a new polar bear to its crew. Here’s everything you need to know about Nora’s arrival from the Oregon Zoo. This week, the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison ...

Welcome to my abode, human. Image credits: Dmitry Kokh. For a long time, Dmitry Kokh had dreamed about photographing polar bears. That’s a lofty goal for a wildlife photographer but the way he sees it ...

When Jon Sigurdsson from Hafnarfjordur in Iceland was travelling in northern Labrador earlier this week, he captured a sight on his camera he thought he would never see — a mother polar bear fighting ...

A rare encounter between a polar bear and a black bear was captured in the Torngat Mountains earlier this week. (Submitted by Jon Sigurdsson) When Jon Sigurdsson from Hafnarfjordur in Iceland was ...

Drone footage shows polar bears inhabiting an abandoned Soviet-era weather station off Russia. Scientists left the research station, which is in an abandoned village, soon after the Soviet Union's ...

A group of polar bears that have taken over an abandoned polar research station off Russia's coast is intimately captured in drone footage. Polar bears have taken over an abandoned Soviet polar ...