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.” ...

Canada boasts three of the world’s eight bear species. This brightly-coloured map helps show the areas they all call home. “We wanted to provide an interactive map that educators, kids and the public ...

These maps show which regions are home to species of warm water reef-building corals (top) ... One of those, the polar bear, made headlines earlier this … Close. Advertisement.

Several bear species that today only occur in America or in Asia have hybridized in their evolutionary history, researchers have discovered. The Beringia land bridge, which in former times ...

Scientists map sloth bear hotspots in India Researchers estimated the habitat range of sloth bears across India as covering 2.97 million sq. km of area ...

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.

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 ...