An American black bear entertained Oregon Zoo visitors by climbing more than 50 feet up a tree inside the zoo’s bear exhibit ...

A Colorado parks and wildlife agency could bear-ly keep it together after spotting a rotund figure on trail cameras. A “thicc boi” black bear packing on the fluff for hibernation seen near ...

Lucky the bear was found begging for food as a cub near Wisconsin. He came within an hour of being euthanized, but found refuge at the North American Bear Center in Ely. (North American Bear Center) ...

With several Pennsylvania black bear seasons happening, hunters have shot more than 900 bears already this fall, including five weighing more than 600 pounds. The Pennsylvania Game Commission ...

A New Jersey bow hunter just set a state record by killing a 770-pound black bear — a beast he’d been eyeing over the past two bear hunts. Brian Melvin, 39, first spotted the bear three years ...

Bevan-Dangel said humans could live more harmoniously with the American black bear by following a few simple guidelines, like avoiding encounters and trying not to lure the animals. They can do ...

“People are likely to see bears in the western part of the state now because of a few things,” said Colleen Olfenbuttel, game black bear and furbearer biologist for the N.C. Wildlife Commission.

Bevan-Dangel said humans could live side-by-side more harmoniously with the American black bear by following a few simple guidelines, like avoiding encounters and trying not to lure the animals.

Well before dawn on Oct. 15, Brian Melvin was 15-feet high in a climbing tree stand holding his 72-pound bow and waiting for a huge black bear that he knew was in the area. “At first light I watched ...