this "albino brown bear" (sometimes described as an "albino grizzly bear," depending on the source) was airlifted to the Arctic time and time again after being mistaken for a polar bear.

There are different bear species worldwide. From the Andes Mountains to the Arctic Circle, depending on where you go, here are the bear species you may spot.

Polar bears are not only the largest bears, they are the largest land predators in the world. So, when it comes to size, how ...

Coastal brown bears, of which there are several subspecies, including Kodiak bears, can weigh nearly as much as polar bears. A polar bear’s skull and nose are also longer than a grizzly’s.

"We find evidence for interbreeding between polar bears and brown bears that predates an ancient polar bear we studied," she says. "And, moreover, our results demonstrate a complicated ...

Knowing what to do in the presence of a bear can save your life. Three types of bears inhabit North America: black bears, brown bears, and polar bears. Grizzly bears — which are included in the ...

However, the brown bear genomes had multiple alleles. This suggests that these genes had already been selected for in some ancient polar bear ancestor, and polar bears had adaptations for Arctic ...

Brown bears have one layer of fur ... The research team concludes that the gene differences associated with polar bear adaptions may have been influenced by bears living during the end stages ...

This polar bear's darker face and body shape might lead ... a hunter in Canada’s Northwest Territories shot a bear that had white fur with brown patches, long claws, and a grizzly-like hump.