Alaskan mother and son killed in first fatal polar bear attack in 30 years

Reason for attack is unknown but scientists found in 2019 that changes in sea ice habitat coincided with polar bears’ use of landSummer Myomick bundled her baby against the freezing winds whipping off the Bering Sea and stepped outside into a blur of blowing snow.It was a short walk from the school where she had visited relatives to the health clinic about 150 yards away, but the young mother could hardly have seen where she was going – or the terror that was approaching.