Sept. 24 (UPI) --The National Parks Service is celebrating its annual Fat Bear Week this week, but the bears have been out all summer having fun and causing mischief. As the weather turns warmer, ...

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Many folks who live near the water take it for granted, but wild animals know exactly how to make the most of their natural habitat. While humans are busy lounging on the shore or waiting for the fish ...

Having a close encounter with a wild bear can be a terrifying moment for anybody, even for trained professionals. A group of researchers managed to document its tense standoff with a bear while inside ...

“Brown Bears in Alaska’s National Parks: Conservation of a Wilderness Icon” Edited by Grant V. Hilderbrand, Kyle Joly, David D. Gustine, and Nina Chambers; University of Alaska Press (University Press ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Female brown bears Ash and Lexi made their public debut Monday at the Lincoln Park Zoo, marking the first time the zoo has cared for brown bears since 1979. The pair came from the ...

The brawny bruins on the Alaska Peninsula are ready to brawl it out to see which will win this year’s fattest bear title in the wildly popular annual online voting contest known as Fat Bear Week. The ...

Conservation groups sued Monday over a state program in Alaska that authorizes killing brown bears and black bears as a way to increase the size of a once-significant caribou herd in the southwest ...

ANCHORAGE — Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first win after narrowly finishing in second place three previous ...