This is the Year of the Polar Bear, so the Putnam is adding JP the Polar Bear, named after museum namesake family member Joseph Duncan Putnam, as the museum’s new mascot. JP will be at the ...

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video ...

Haley, the 22-year-old polar bear, left Memphis Zoo in Tennessee over the weekend in preparation for her new home in Michigan. Lately, two polar bears have been part of the Detroit Zoo collection, a ...