Huntsville is not the only north Alabama city dealing with bear sightings. Athens Police Chief Anthony Pressnell said Tuesday ...

In the case of the inquisitive Rumanian bear in the Sibiu Tour, it did not return to find out about the outcome of stage 2, ...

Ursus H. Bear is the founder of the Country Bear Jamboree. This mural features him in a chef’s hat instead of his iconic top hat (also worn by his grandson, Henry). On either side of him are the ...

A brown bear (Ursus arctos) is walking and looking for salmon on a beach along the shore of Lake Crescent in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska, on Aug. 22, 2019.

A large male polar bear can weigh over 1,700 pounds, while a large female polar bear can weigh up to 1,000 pounds. A newborn polar bear weighs approximately 1.5 pounds.

Kodiak bears (Ursus arctos middendorffi), for example, are not grizzlies, and neither are coastal brown bears generally. Here, we are talking just about grizzly bears— Ursus arctos horribilis .

Despite the name, Bruno was a female bear that lived somewhere between 100,000 and 70,000 years ago and its genome has helped scientists narrow in on this brown bear-polar bear divergence.

This photo taken on June 3, 2025, shows a sculpture of a "salesman bear" near a shopping center in the Ursus district of Warsaw, Poland. Named after the Latin word for "bear," Ursus also features ...

The American black bear, Ursus americanus, did not get the memo when that saying was circulated: It comes in a variety of shades, including blond and cinnamon.

Legend has it that the “last bear” on Bear Mountain was shot and killed in 1845 or 1885, depending on which version of the story you believe. The 20th century brought a dramatic transformation.