Unfortunately for seals, polar bears are still lethal underwater. They can swim 6.2 mph (10 kph), fast enough to catch fleeing prey. Their bodies are quick and agile due to copious help from nature.

Erlend watched as it attempted several underwater surprise attacks on the bird, only to fail each time. Play hunting like this is essential learning for a young bear. Eventually it will have to ...

Thalarctos Maritimus (Ursus maritimus) commonly known as Polar bear swimming under water. Polar Bear via Depositphotos The ... polar bears by reducing the sea ice they depend on for hunting seals. As ...

You’ll come across amazing wildlife during a polar expedition cruise. Up in the Arctic, you might see polar bears catching seals on floating ... From your polar cruise, you’ll see this underwater ...

Our team of polar travel specialists have personally explored both the Arctic and Antarctic regions – from tracking polar bears in Svalbard to kayaking ... Optional equipment includes hydrophones to ...

A lounging seal, a bloodied-but-undeterred honey badger, and a cheetah cub given a second chance at life: the finalists for ...

We all know where polar bears live, as they are famous for blending ... and making breathing holes in the ice for feeding underwater for long periods. Walruses have been known to attack humans ...

On day three of the exercise, German Navy commander Beata Król tried to launch an underwater drone from ... year when the Chinese ship NewNew Polar Bear damaged two cables linking Estonia to ...

The series also explores the ways that these underwater dwellers find mates ... The remaining two episodes focus on polar bears and wild dogs. This miniseries offers a rare opportunity to watch ...

Under the Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears, hunting became more restrictive and protecting critical denning habitat a priority under Article 2. In 2008 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

As you enjoy the holidays, take a minute to think about our threatened polar bears. Somewhere on the Arctic Refuge coastal plain pregnant polar bears are curled up inside their dens in a snowdrift.

"We had about 1,200 polar bears here in the 1980s and we've lost almost half of them." The decline is tied to the amount of time the bay is now ice-free, a period that is getting longer as the climate ...