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The black bear and its numerous cousins are North America's most common bear species. But the most feared is the towering Grizzly Bear, a subspecies of brown bear that frequents Alaska.

Average-sized adult males weigh 300 lbs. and females 150 lbs. The black bear once occurred over most of North America from Alaska and Canada south into the central regions of northern Mexico, but now ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Grazer won her second Fat Bear Contest Tuesday by defeating Chunk by more than 40,000 votes cast by fans ...

Here’s how you can enjoy an eye-popping brown bear safari in Alaska, too. ALASKA AND BEYOND: 12 best family cruise lines for all ages More than 100,000 combined brown, grizzly, and black bears l ...

The Biden administration on Thursday approved a request to open tens of thousands of federally managed acres in rural Alaska for the ... to habitat for brown bear, the endangered Cook Inlet ...

The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo said its Asiatic black bear Beezler turned 32 years old Monday. Beezler, also called Beez, is now ...

Asian black bears are reproductively compatible with several other bear species, and have on occasion produced hybrid offspring. Image via DEPOSITPHOTOS Alaska tops the list with the most black bears.

While, the department notes April and May tend to be when it starts to see both brown bears and black bears emerging from hibernation, this year it has already begun receiving reports.

A cyclist lived to tell his tale after a large bear attacked him while riding alone in Alaska. The victim was riding his bike in Cantell when he spotted a large brown bear about 10m away, sprinting ...

and is the only bear living in the eastern United States. Black bears are found in most forested areas from Mexico north to the edge of the tree line in Canada and Alaska. In Maine, black bears are ...