Black bears in North Carolina may be hard to spot, but as snow thaws and temperatures rise, the chances of seeing them in the wild increase.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reported they have finished their initial investigation into what officials have called the first fatal black bear attack in state history.

Officers were on the scene and investigating it as an "active crime scene," Arielle Callender, the public information officer for the South Region ... data references black bear attacks ...

Reasons to be Cheerful reveals a growing conservation burial movement that is challenging the funeral industry's ...

In the shadow of the first fatal bear ... south unit: Collier, Hendry and Lee counties. The plan dates from before the death of 89-year-old Robert Markel, killed and partially eaten by a black ...

Regina resident Christopher Wesaquate saw what appears to have been the same bear earlier, around 3 a.m. CST Monday, when he was driving home on Ring Road in south Regina. "It was running to the ...

At Ramsey Creek Preserve near Westminster, South Carolina, the deceased do not ... Bobcats, foxes, deer and even a black bear roam the preserve. The Campbells bury the dead or their ashes ...

They're wild, they're iconic and they belong in Western North Carolina ... they have enough habitat to do so. At the WNC Nature Center, Gentile said they try to talk about a bear's role in ...

To reassure my fellow parishioners that we also have a very different kind of politicians here in South Carolina ... This is Republicans and Democrats, black and white, men and women alike.

“So that's why you get these animals that are kind of looking around in a sort of what we call fragmented habitat.” Batts said the black bear is the only species found in North Carolina or elsewhere ...

A black bear killed a man and a dog in a rural area of South Florida ... they were once considered threatened due to habitat loss and human encroachment. Conservation efforts have helped ...