Alaskan Bush People star Bear Brown is clearing the air about rumors ... basically Discovery went through a large merger, a super-big merger a few years ago,” he explained.

Alaskan artist and musician Nicholas Galanin shared a video on his Facebook page early Monday morning of his 11-year-old dog named Pretty fending off a big brown bear near his home the night prior.

GRANDDAD: Sometimes. But then, after a long, long time, a brown bear was born with bigger paws, with thicker pads. BIG-PAWED BEAR: I can run and not fall over! GRANDDAD: The young brown bear's ...