A video captured a polar bear charging at a person in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, forcing them to drop their gun and race away on a snowmobile.

The incident took place on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard on April 27, when the man attempted to scare the polar bear away by firing a warning shot, but it charged towards him.

Video footage from the Arctic town of Pyramiden on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard shows the polar bear charging at a man who fired at him.

Dramatic video captures escape from polar bear in Pyramiden, a town in Norway's archipelago of Svalbard. (Credit: Rebecca Baack via Storyful) ...

A pioneering mission in Norway's Svalbard archipelago involves taking fat tissue biopsies from polar bears to study the ...

Heart-stopping video shows a man drop his gun and then narrowly outrun a polar bear in Norway. While at a hotel in Svalbard for a ski expedition last month, Rebecca Baack captured video from her ...

With one foot braced on the helicopter’s landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer ...

Mother bear with three cubs. Recorded using a remote camera as part of the maternal den research in Svalbard, Norway with Polar Bears International, the Norwegian Polar Institute, and the San ...

and the University of Toronto Scarborough reveal the first detailed look at polar bear cubs emerging from their dens, captured through nearly a decade of remote camera footage in Svalbard, Norway.

Within Canada, only Manitoba prohibits polar bear hunts. Polar bears currently exist in four additional countries: Greenland, the United States, Norway, and Russia. Polar bear hunting is prohibited in ...

It was almost like a scene out of a movie as a man dropped everything and jumped onto a snowmobile to escape a charging polar bear in Norway. Dramatic video footage captured by Rebecca Baack ...