Californians likely already know the state animal is that which is emblazoned upon the state flag — the California grizzly ...

has introduced a resolution in the California legislature to declare 2024 the “Year of the California Grizzly Bear” to mark the centennial of the extirpation of California’s official state animal. The ...

both telltale signs of a grizzly bear. A century later, that report remains, in most experts’ eyes, the last credible sighting of a grizzly in California. An animal that had once numbered as many as ...