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

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 ...

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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 ...

The Life Ursus project began in 1999 with the introduction of three male and six female bears in the Trento forests, aiming to rebuild the population to 40-60 bears over a few decades.

By Margaret Gaines/ Danita Delimont/ Adobe Stock We’re in a bear market, and by that I am not referring to the flagging value of stocks but rather a spike in the local population of Ursus americanus — ...