Watch as this mother polar bear teaches her cubs the skills needed to survive in the wild. The cubs can be seen swimming along with the mother, as well as having the occasional wrestle in the water.

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA — Nine polar bears were observed in one day swimming in open ocean off Alaska’s northwest coast, an increase from previous surveys that may indicate warming conditions are ...

A fisherman captured video on June 25 of a bear swimming across the Quabbin Reservoir to an island with two bear cubs on its ...

A man in a boat returning to his remote village in northern Quebec considered it a blessing to have witnessed a polar bear swimming offshore as night was falling Saturday. The man from the Inuit ...

My how he's grown! Toronto Zoo's polar bear cub explores the zoo's Big Polar Bear Habitat for the first time and gets ready for his summer swim. Humphrey, born in November, seems a little shy ...

Polar bear swimming in open water. Photo by: USGS. Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are capable of swimming incredible distances, according to a new study published in Zoology, which recorded polar ...

But he did find a polar bear swim stroke was, on average, 1.5 times metabolically costlier than a stride on the treadmill. This wasn’t a big surprise for Pagano, but it was troubling.

According to Griffen’s research, recently published in Polar Biology, it costs polar bears five times as much energy to swim as it does to walk the same distance.That cost became enormous in one case ...

Polar Bear Swim Day, or Polar Bear Plunge Day, is a day each year dedicated to taking a polar bear plunge, where participants enter a cold body of water as part of a challenge or for charity.

The first official Polar Bear Swim took place on Jan. 1, 1953, and it’s been held every year since, with two recent exceptions: The pandemic and a sewage spill caused the swim to be canceled in ...