At least once every fall, the Lake Superior Zoo’s Primary Carnivore Keeper, Micayla Coble, checks out the den of Alaskan coastal brown bears Tundra and Banks. It’s where the bears will be spending the ...

The area at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden formerly known as Bear Hill will be transformed into three new habitats and a place for new species to call the zoo home. The zoo announced Thursday ...

The “dawn bear” may have been one of the earliest carnivorous mammals, and its taste for shellfish may have gotten it in trouble. By Carolyn Wilke Some 30 million years ago, a primitive bear roamed ...

This ancestor of bears was the size of a raccoon with the claws of a cat and really bad teeth. No wonder it took decades for scientists to figure out what it is. The new species Eoarctos vorax is ...