American black bears, Ursus americanus, are native to Summit County and were here long before humans arrived. We’ve built our ...

Gobi bears are the most endangered of Earth’s eight bear species. Just 40 individuals are thought to be left surviving in the ...

Romania’s growing bear population has turned conservation into confrontation for people living in the shadows of the Carpathian Mountains.

By Abhishyant Kidangoor Before pivoting her focus to the Arctic, Alysa McCall worked extensively in the grassland ecosystem. There, the interventions required for ecosystem restoration and wildlife ...

Bears have always caught people’s attention– not just because they’re big and strong, but because they’ve learned to live in ...

After the (only) images of dead bears appeared in 2004, Arctic ice continued to decline. NASA has satellite imagery of arctic ice (which they also photoshopped, but that’s another story) back to ...

Named after the Latin word for "bear," Ursus also features a bear in its coat of arms. The district has installed several themed bear sculptures -- like a farmer, mechanic, and football player ...

Troy Hurtubise, inventor of the Ursus bear suit designed to convince bears that you aren’t food and the Angel Light, designed to allow the user to see through walls, is now using his magical God ...

Alaskan brown bears (Ursus arctos) in a National Park and Preserve in Alaska. A recent study of the gut microbiome of Alaskan brown bears shows that the microbial life in bears’ guts allows them ...

Stephen Herrero, Andrew Higgins, Field Use of Capsicum Spray as a Bear Deterrent, Ursus, Vol. 10, A Selection of Papers from the Tenth International Conference on Bear Research and Management, ...

Stephen Herrero, Andrew Higgins, Human Injuries Inflicted by Bears in British Columbia: 1960-97, Ursus, Vol. 11, A Selection of Papers from the Eleventh International Conference on Bear Research and ...