Anyone who has spent a decent amount of time exploring the outdoors knows that the world has no shortage of bears. From the ones that ramble through a campsite because of a careless mistake to the ...

When people ask “what’s the most dangerous bear,” they usually expect “polar bear” or “grizzly” as a gut-level answer. If you look at the actual numbers, the species most often tied to fatal attacks ...

There are currently over 9,760 species that are considered critically endangered. Of those, over 1,300 may be extinct, and nearly 70 are considered extinct in the wild. Additionally, thanks to climate ...

Ursus minimus—presumed to be the common ancestor of most modern bear species—lived in Europe between approximately 4.9 million and 1.8 million years ago, during the Pliocene epoch and possibly into ...

The polar bear has a become an (insufferably cute) symbol of global warming -- meaning we were extra keen on reading into a new study, published in Science, on the genetic origins of these ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will keep grizzly bears on the Endangered Species Act list and is proposing to create a "Distinct Population Segment" for the bear. Wednesday's announcement goes ...