Black bears are skilled anglers, moving with surprising stealth and grace before striking at an unsuspecting fish.

Bears hold endless fascination for people—they’re huge, and intelligent, and they look oh so cuddly. It’s easy to imagine ...

Ursus H. Bear is the founder of the Country Bear Jamboree. This mural features him in a chef’s hat instead of his iconic top hat (also worn by his grandson, Henry). On either side of him are the ...

On the first sunny day of spring, Su Su, an Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) living in northern Vietnam, is foraging for pumpkin and challenging her friends for a turn in the tire swing. Like her ...

Kodiak bears (Ursus arctos middendorffi), for example, are not grizzlies, and neither are coastal brown bears generally. Here, we are talking just about grizzly bears— Ursus arctos horribilis .

A large male polar bear can weigh over 1,700 pounds, while a large female polar bear can weigh up to 1,000 pounds. A newborn polar bear weighs approximately 1.5 pounds.

Grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) are a subspecies of brown bear found in North America. They’re found primarily in Alaska and Canada, with small populations in Idaho, Montana, Washington ...

The American black bear, Ursus americanus, did not get the memo when that saying was circulated: It comes in a variety of shades, including blond and cinnamon.

This photo taken on June 3, 2025, shows a sculpture of a "salesman bear" near a shopping center in the Ursus district of Warsaw, Poland. Named after the Latin word for "bear," Ursus also features ...

Despite the name, Bruno was a female bear that lived somewhere between 100,000 and 70,000 years ago and its genome has helped scientists narrow in on this brown bear-polar bear divergence.

A brown bear (Ursus arctos) is walking and looking for salmon on a beach along the shore of Lake Crescent in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska, on Aug. 22, 2019.