Revelers in costumes get their photo taken before they enter the cold water during the annual Polar Bear Plunge on New Year’s Day, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025, in New York.

Amid thick fog, the expedition vessel altered its course, eventually encountering two polar bears. In a mesmerizing moment just before midnight, the young male bear climbed onto a small iceberg ...

This dreamy image of a polar bear drifting to sleep on a bed carved ... Tzahi Finkelstein captured this moment between a Balkan pond turtle and a northern banded groundling dragonfly, while ...

A stunning image of a young polar bear drifting to sleep on an iceberg ... Four other outstanding finalists were "highly commended". The Happy Turtle, by Tzahi Finkelstein Tzahi Finkelstein ...

There are polar bears wearing Santa hats and red-nosed reindeer pulling Santa’s sleigh. Turtle doves and the partridge in a pear tree are also immortalized in the song “The Twelve Days of ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...

It is starting at 1:05 p.m. on New Year’s Day. The Atlantic City Polar Bear Plunge is hosting its 33rd annual plunge at noon. Brigantine, which borders Atlantic City, is located on an island and ...