Wildlife is abundant in this remote and fragile area, and we were looking for seals ... headed directly for my camera. I had long dreamed of taking a picture of a polar bear while it waited ...

and the University of Toronto Scarborough reveal the first detailed look at polar bear cubs emerging from their dens, ...

Perhaps we made a mistake in not telling the full story—that we were looking for a picture that foretold the future and that we didn’t know what had happened to this particular polar bear.

A polar bear lounges in a field of pink flowers ... photo of a mother emperor penguin peering through the lens of a camera as its offspring looks on. The Nature Photography Contest awarded ...