A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and became smaller and less aggressive. Humans have long shaped the environments in ...

The 26-year-old man attacked by a brown bear while hiking on Mount Rausu in Japan on Aug. 14 Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She has also ...

Eric Brown Daytona Beach, FL - Eric J. Brown, 70, passed away suddenly at home, on Nov. 26, 2025. He was born on Dec. 28, 1954, to Julian and Mabel (Cook) Brown of W. Oneonta, NY. Eric always had a ...

Beware the bears: that's the grizzly warning from the U.S. Embassy to Americans living in Japan, after a record spate of attacks in recent months. “Bear sightings and attacks have increased in parts ...

Bear 32 Chunk was crowned the 2025 champion of Fat Bear Week. Chunk defeated runner-up Bear 856 with over 96,000 votes. The annual contest celebrates the survival of brown bears at Katmai National ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) --Alaska's Katmai National Park announced a brown bear dubbed 32 Chunk has claimed his first-ever Fat Bear Week championship title. The park said the bounteous bear bested a field of ...

Two people drove themselves to a nearby emergency room after being attacked by a brown bear while hiking along the two-mile Exit Glacier Trail in Seward, Alaska. According to a news release from ...

The terrifying close encounter was caught on video by a security camera A man walking to his car in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, had a scary run-in with a brown bear Security footage shows the ...

Two hikers were hospitalized after fighting off a brown bear on an Alaskan trail, officials said Wednesday. The two people, who were not named by authorities, were about a quarter-mile up the Exit ...

Fat Bear Week is back at Katmai National Park and Preserve. The March Madness-style bracket competition pits some of Katmai National Park and Preserve's bulkiest and most beloved brown bears against ...

Fat Bear Week, when people get to pick their favorite Alaskan brown bear bulking up for hibernation, is coming early this year. The annual online competition that normally starts in early October will ...

His health had been declining, and the zoo decided it would be best to euthanize him. The bear came to the zoo after hunters killed his mother. The zoo says Axhi loved diving underwater, food, and ...