Call it the bear version of a microwave, because one Brown Bear has totally figured out how to make dinner a whole lot easier. People online are calling the bear a wee bit lazy for the method he came ...

Animals are adept at adapting, but what happens when an animal is born with an innate advantage over its peers? Across countless species, genetic variations occur either through evolution or ...

A brown bear in Katmai National Park and Preserve catching leaping sockeye salmon atop the Brooks River waterfall. It's a popular ursine fishing strategy. Credit: Rebecca Harding / Getty Images It's ...

It’s bear-lovers’ favorite time of year again — at least outside of Fat Bear Week. The National Park Service’s Explore camera is back on and pointed at bears feasting on sockeye salmon in Alaska. The ...

Kodiak bears are the largest in the world. An adult male can stand 10 feet tall when it rises up on its hind legs and weigh 1,500 pounds. When on all four legs it can stand 5 feet tall. Kodiak bears ...

A new study “Ecology of fear alters behaviour of grizzly bears exposed to bear-viewing ecotourism” in the journal Ecology finds that bears will avoid ecotourists on multiple spatial and temporal ...

WRANGELL, Alaska — The nation’s largest national forest, the Tongass, blankets 17 million acres of southeast Alaska, in which everything is connected to everything else, with salmon the centerpiece.

The colossal bear 747 in Katmai National Park and Preserve's Brooks River. Credit: Courtesy of L. Law. It's the happiest time of the year — Fat Bear Week! This year's event takes place from Sept.