The black bear population is increasing in Southwest Florida, leading to more encounters with humans. Growth and development are encroaching on bear habitats, causing bears to venture into ...

Bears are most active in the spring and summer, meaning you're most likely to encounter a bear in Gatlinburg between April ...

Grizzly-on-black bear predation isn’t often witnessed by people, and it’s extremely rare to capture it on film. That’s why a recent series of videos out of British Columbia, Canada of a ...

Video footage captured a man in Asheville, bravely approaching a ferocious-looking black bear in his own brown bear costume that more closely resembled a college mascot. The man emerges from the ...

Inside a split oak tree, several feet above the forest floor, she was cuddled up with her two newborn cubs. The Louisiana black bear (Ursus americanus luteolus), is one of 16 subspecies of the ...

Bear season is coming early this year and black bears are “pretty much everywhere,” according to wildlife experts across New England. With warming temperatures comes the conclusion of the ...

The coast looked clear from the cameras, so he returned to using his phone, only to come face-to-face with a black bear just seconds later. "I was a little frightened because it was right there ...

Louisiana is expanding black bear hunting just one year after its first season in decades, more than doubling the number of hunters allowed to participate and more than tripling the number of ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will host three virtual meetings in April to discuss a potential black bear hunt. The FWC is considering a hunt because the state's ...

Their eyes glinted in the darkness as they lumbered through the rugged terrain of Hood Mountain Regional Park: a mother black bear with her two cubs trailing closely behind. Trail camera footage ...

this is actually a fur color black bears sometimes have. Missouri Department of Conservation Furbearer Biologist Nate Bowersock said another giveaway is the unrealistic bear behavior shown in the ...