The cub born in Hamburg was first polar bear birth at Hagenbeck Zoo in decades. Video shows the baby animal playing, testing wobbly legs. Hagenbeck Photo from the Hagenbeck Zoo A small, fluffy and adorable polar bear cub wandered around its new home in ...

Luckily, the Toledo Zoo and many others, are part of a breeding program designed to increase polar bear populations worldwide. The bears at this zoo, Crystal and Kali, are now a breeding pair and will hopefully welcome a cub in the near future. Until we get videos of an adorable baby bear, we'll keep watching this delightful gem.

When is it a good thing to be provocative? Today we respond to a listener's critique of an analogy that compares central bankers' raising interest rates to Berlin zookeepers' decision whether to kill Knut the baby polar bear. If nothing else, it was memorable.

A polar bear that killed a young mother and her baby last month in western Alaska was likely an older animal in poor physical condition, but tests came back negative for pathogens that affect the brain and cause aggressive behavior, officials said Monday.

The remote community is raising money for the memorial of the deceased. The attack was Alaska's first fatal polar-bear mauling in more than 30 years. A remote village in Alaska is banding together to process their grief after a mother and baby died in a ...