By Abhaya Raj Joshi KATHMANDU — Researchers have discovered brown bears in a part of Nepal not previously known to host the species, prompting a call to protect this area as a bear “stronghold.” ...

Officials celebrated on May 12 when their trail cameras at Si Phang Nga National Park — on the southern peninsula of Thailand — captured rare footage of Asiatic bears roaming the land. Asiatic ...

The smallest bear species is the sun bear. These tiny bears weigh only 60 to 145 pounds (27 to 66 kg), and are only 4 to 5 feet (1.2 to 1.5 m) tall standing on their hind legs.

When former Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced that the polar bear would be listed as threatened, he simultaneously vowed he wouldn't let the listing affect U.S. climate policy, executing an ...

Florida is home to one bear species, the Florida black bear (Ursus americanus floridanus). ... The Florida black bear was sighted on Aloma Avenue, which is more clearly visible on the map below.

In the samples, they identified 55 tardigrade species, 14 of which were species known in Denmark previously. At least nine species had not been described before.

The grizzly bear, long an icon of American’s Mountain West, has bounced back since being placed on the endangered species list in 1975, with at least 2,000 roaming the country.

This time around, it’s the brown bear — a species found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, but which is so vanishingly rare in Nepal, at an estimated 20 individuals, that it’s considered ...