Musher Jessie Holmes has won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Bundled-up well wishers lined a street along the ...

NOME, Alaska — Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star, won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Friday, ...

The latest addition to the list of amenities available to athletes at the bobsled and skeleton world championships is a room ...

when polar bears give birth to and nurse their cubs. Past research has established that polar bear cubs' odds of survival are impacted by how long their mothers spend denning. However, the underlying ...

Just on the edge of the western Hudson Bay lies the small town of Churchill, Manitoba. Here, the sea meets the boreal forest under the rippling northern lights. Farther to the north, the trees stop ...

to reveal the first detailed look at polar bear cubs emerging from their dens. They have been tracking bears with GPS collars and setting up cameras in Svalbard, Norway, where the bears are known ...

Erin Aili has earned her second John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon title. She finished the 267-mile race Tuesday morning, a shortened course due to a lack of snow between Duluth and Two Harbors.

Polar bear cubs are hidden away for months inside snowy dens. Their mothers nurse them in these quiet spaces, giving the tiny cubs a chance to grow before they set foot on the cold spring ice. A team ...

An Oklahoma toddler called 911 for a “doughnut emergency,” so officers came to his rescue. Screengrab from Moore Police Department video A toddler in dire need of a sweet treat decided to call ...

Credit: Simon Gee/Kt Miller/Steven C Amstrup/Polar Bears International/Cover Images Researchers have revealed astonishing new insights into the lives of polar bear cubs by studying them as they ...

Polar bears may not be the vicious killers you imagine, but it’s still wise not to get too close. Now you don’t have to, as a team of biologists has captured rare footage of cubs taking their ...

Female polar bears give birth in December or early January when the cubs are blind, hairless and weigh just 0.5 kg. Scientists have uncovered a surprising feature of polar bear fur: a natural oil ...