Name the eight types of bears in the world. There are eight species of bears in the world: black bears, brown bears, polar bears, Asiatic black bears, spectacled bears, sun bears, sloth bears and ...

Traveling to grizzly country and wondering, how much does a bear weigh? Here's a breakdown for all four North American bear species.

Lessons from extinction could help protect the bears of today. New research reveals that the now-extinct cave bear was much ...

Black bear vs brown bear seems easy enough, though, right? One is black, and one is brown. In fact, telling the two most common bear species in North America apart can get a little complicated.

But as global temperature rises and Arctic ice melts, polar bears will have more chances to encounter – and mate with – other bear species.

Sloth bears, often called the most dangerous bear species, are responsible for more attacks on humans than tigers, lions, wolves, and even other bears in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Despite feeding ...

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne listed polar bears as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act yesterday, saying the loss of Arctic sea ice in a warming climate could drive them to the ...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service listed grizzly bears in the lower 48 states as threatened under the Endangered Species Act ...

Cave bears were adaptable eaters, yet climate change, shrinking resources, and human competition drove them extinct.

Video in the player above shows Brookfield Zoo’s baby kangaroo drawing a crowd. BROOKFIELD, Ill. (WGN) — The polar bears at ...

Amelia Gray, a polar bear at the Oregon Zoo, is set to embark on a new chapter as she moves to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago ...