State officials received 12,104 reports of bear sightings last year, nearly triple the roughly 4,500 reported in 2015.

Dorje Dundul recently had his foot gnawed by a brown bear – a member of the species Ursus thibetanus, to be precise. It wasn’t his first such encounter. Recounting the first of three such violent ...

A man in his 70s was found dead after a fatal bear attack in Iwate, Japan, with his body showing severe injuries including decapitation.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A polar bear attacked a campsite Monday in Norway’s remote Arctic Svalbard Islands, injuring a French tourist, authorities said, adding that the wounds weren’t ...

A passing truck driver spotted the horror unfolding and repeatedly blasted his horn while shouting, frightening the bear off.

Three members of a family, including a child, have been injured by a polar bear in a rare attack in the far north of Siberia, Russian officials said Monday. Local police “received a report of a polar ...

An investigation into a fatal grizzly bear mauling of a man just outside Yellowstone National Park earlier this year found that the bear might have been defending a moose carcass - even charging at ...

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