As Charlie hesitates for a moment to reconnoiter, the bear turns into a side passage in the ice and disappears.

"The polar bear could disappear in the wild unless the pace of global warming slows," they say.

By the 1950s however, it was generally assumed that the bears had all disappeared from the region.

The bear disappeared after the attack, and game wardens with dogs tried to track it overnight.

A few years ago, black bears had all but disappeared from New Jersey.

He said the 60 to 80 remaining bears would have disappeared without the Civil Guard's protection.

When eventually Bjarke gets up and starts fighting, the bear has disappeared.

He fired a flare and thankfully the bear disappeared into the darkness.

After this show of force, the bears disappeared into the woods.

The heavily built bears had disappeared, perhaps unable to keep up.