Imagine an animal able to survive any harsh condition known to man. This animal actually exists right in your own backyard! Tardigrades, also known as Water Bears, are water-dwelling, microscopic ...

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 ...

Last year, right around my birthday, I took a trip to the Great Smoky Mountains for the first time. My day began with a hike on a quiet trail, breathing in the crisp mountain air, when I heard the ...

In a long-awaited decision issued Wednesday, the federal government denied petitions from Montana and Wyoming to delist grizzly bears, announcing that grizzlies are still threatened in the Lower 48 ...

Rural Alaskan and Canadian communities are trying to get along with the large mammals Lesley Evans Ogden, Knowable Magazine Treading carefully through yellowing aspen forest in southeastern British ...

Polar bears act as "crucial" providers of food for other Arctic species, reveals new research. The iconic mammals - officially classified as "vulnerable" - annually provide millions of kilos of meat, ...

In a Russia rock formation once used as a quarry, an ancient gigantic bear jawbone was discovered. Elizabeth George via Unsplash Prehistoric creatures came in all shapes and sizes, from the towering ...