It’s one of only four mammals in Alaska to contract the virus, and the first brown bear to be found with the disease.

An Alaska brown bear at the Lake Superior Zoo in northeastern Minnesota has a gleaming new silver-colored canine tooth after ...

An 800-pound Alaska brown bear named Tundra just got the largest dental crown ever made. The bear is so big that the ...

A group of tourists with Scenic Bear Viewing were observing Alaskan coastal brown bears on the beach when one male decided to charge them in a heart-pounding encounter. “I have been bear guiding ...

Brown bears vary in size depending on which type of population they belong to. Their typical length ranges from 5 to 9.2 feet. Male brown bears weigh between 400 and 1,200 pounds.

Alaska's mighty brown bears — the coastal version of the interior grizzly bear (which is part of the same species, Ursus arctos) — are the largest land predators in North America. Adult males ...

Bird Flu Found in Sheep: The H5N1 virus was detected in a single sheep in Britain, in what the government described as the first case of its kind reported anywhere in the world.

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.” The finding ...