Bears

Population assessments have revealed that polar bears in Greenland are suffering from crippling wounds on their paws due to wet snow that gets stuck to the pads and freezes into blocks.

Image of polar bear with plastic hanging from its mouth shortlisted for Ocean Photographer of the Year 2024 award.

Sun bears often stand upright like humans, and mothers even walk around cradling their babies in their arms.

An image captured off the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard shows a young polar bear drifting to sleep on a small iceberg after carving a bed in the ice.

Bigfoot reports across North America have been linked to the presence of black bears, but the research can’t account for sightings in Florida.

Although extinct California grizzlies upped their meat consumption following European colonization and agricultural expansion, they were mostly veggie and smaller than what historical sources claim.

Bird flu could be another blow for polar bear populations that are already at risk from climate change.

Bears that are struggling to hibernate due to abnormally warm weather in Russia’s Amur region are wandering around in a daze, having suppressed their metabolism in preparation for winter.

Japanese officials found the body of a missing student alongside the corpse of a brown bear that likely killed him. The bear is also suspected of attacking several other people in the area.

A series of videos taken on a roadside in Canada show a grizzly bear attempting to drag a dead black bear up a hill as it bites and mauls the corpse.