Grisly bear encounters leading to death and near-fatal injuries have made headlines around the world - here are some of the ...

Gordon Buchanan had a terrifying near-death experience with a polar bear (Picture: Jason Roberts) BBC cameraman, Gordon ...

A man who “leapt on” a polar bear to save his wife from an attack sustained serious injuries but is expected to fully recover, authorities in Canada’s remote Ontario said. The couple in the ...

While polar bear sightings in the area are common, attacks are “rare but not unheard of,” a police spokesperson told CNN affiliate CTV News. Fort Severn is located near Hudson Bay. Polar bears ...

Alysa McCall, a scientist at Polar Bear International, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that polar bears rarely attack humans. When an attack occurs, the bear is often hungry ...

Such bear patrols have long succeeded in reducing conflict. But this week, a polar bear attack killed a mother and her 1-year-old son in Wales, a tiny, remote Alaska whaling village whose bear ...

My favourite reads: "If a polar bear attacks you must fight back." Running away from a charging polar bear is – perhaps counterintuitively - dangerous. A bear's instinct is to chase prey and ...

In their driveway, a polar bear “lunged” at the woman, police said, and her husband “leapt onto the animal” to halt the attack. The bear instead turned its attention to the man ...

FORT SEVERN, Ontario – A man is recovering from serious injuries after lunging onto a polar bear to protect his wife from an attack. The Nishnawbe Aski Police Service said the incident happened ...

The Highland Wildlife Park's female bear Victoria has reached the grand old age of 28. Victoria is the mother of Hamish who was the first polar bear cub to be born in the UK in 25 years.

A unique garden launched at a Bucks hospital was set up after a horrific incident which saw a 17-year-old boy mauled to death by a polar bear.