The Malayan sun bear, also called the honey bear, is the world's smallest bear species. The average adult weighs 55 kilograms and when standing, is approximately 1.5 meters tall, Jiang said.

Chief Standing Bear, whose landmark lawsuit in 1879 established that a Native American is a person under the law, is on a new postage stamp. The U.S. Postal Service released a Forever stamp on ...

Estimated to be more than 500 years old and just 2.75 by 2.75 inches, the drawing known simply as "Head of a Bear" will likely be sold for $11 million to $16.5 million, the auction house said.

A statue of Ponca Chief Standing Bear of Nebraska in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol. Standing Bear’s groundbreaking 1879 civil rights case advanced legal progress for Native Americans.