From beloved children’s stories like Eric Carle’s Brown Brown, Brown Bear, What Do You See? to their use as sports mascots, ...

The ancestors weighed more than 100 kilograms but were still smaller in size than brown bears. Researchers are keen to look more into the diet of K. Beatrix to understand how the species moved ...

When black bears first emerge from the den in the spring, they'll eat tender grasses and vegetation like dandelions. Donna Feledichuk / Adobe Stock What do black bears eat? You name it, and a black ...

The brown bear is characterized by a distinctive hump on the shoulders, a slightly dished profile to the face, and long straight claws on the front paws used for digging. Weight varies with the season ...

A new study suggests that microRNA from plants can enter the bloodstream of bears and facilitate adaptation to a herbivorous ...

The brown bear is a large bear distributed across much of northern Eurasia and North America. Adult bears generally weigh between 100 and 635 kg (220 and 1,400 lb). Its largest subspecies ...

About 90 percent of a brown bear’s diet consists of acorns, grasses and other plants. When plants are thin on the ground in winter due to heavy snow, bears hibernate by slowing down their ...