Bear Who Grew Up in a Tiny Cage to Entertain Restaurant Guests Is Now Free and Hibernating Again (Exclusive)

Hope is a rescue bear at BEAR SANCTUARY Prishtina in Kosovo who has relearned how to hibernate and is now competing in her ...

11 cool photos to celebrate International Polar Bear Day

Happy International Polar Bear Day! For 21 years, conservation nonprofit Polar Bears International has celebrated these ...
IFLScience

Why Do Polar Bears Sometimes Adopt Other Polar Bears' Cubs? We Asked The Experts

"No matter how it happened, we do know that with a mother to protect it, feed it, and teach it how to be a polar bear, the cub’s chances of survival are far better now than if it was left on its own." ...
WOOD-TV

DNR pursuing more charges for hunter who allegedly killed mother bear with cubs

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A man from the Upper Peninsula may face more criminal charges for allegedly killing a mother bear accompanied by cubs. According to the Michigan Department of Natural ...
Chicago Tribune

Column: On a memorable night for the Bears and Cubs, keeping the faith was easier said than done

No one tells you the side effects when you’re growing up a Chicago sports fan. It’s something you just have to experience on your own, the nausea, the headaches, the loss of appetite and the ...
USA Today

Alex Bregman to Cubs and a Bears playoff win. What a night for Chicago sports.

Simply, it was the greatest sports evening in Chicago since 2016. “Big night for Chicago,’’ Scott Boras, Bregman’s agent, said in a text to USA TODAY Sports. So, while the Bears were coming back from ...
upnorthlive

U.P. man could face charges for illegally shooting mother bear with cubs

MENOMINEE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- A man in Menominee County is potentially facing charges after authorities say he illegally shot a mother bear that was with her cubs. DNR Conservation Officer ...
MLive

U.P. man could be charged for killing mother bear with cubs, slapped with $3,500 fine

MENOMINEE COUNTY, MI - A Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officer recently investigated a case of illegal hunting after he was tipped off that a man had shot and killed a mother ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Meet the National Zoo’s Adorable 1-Month-Old Sloth Bear Cubs—the First Born There in More Than a Decade

The two cubs in their indoor den Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Two sloth bear cubs were born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Best Bears team since 2006? Best Cubs or White Sox lefty hitter in 2026? Here's how you voted

Why are we asking for donations? Why are we asking for donations? This site is free thanks to our community of supporters. Voluntary donations from readers like you keep our news accessible for ...
BBC Wildlife

I woke up to a bear cub pulling at my sleeping bag – and then its mother arrived...

How did you get into photography? I have always loved wildlife. When I was 18, I went on safari to Kenya and a guy in my Jeep had all this great gear – I just had a little point-and-shoot camera. I ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Mama Polar Bear Adopted a Young Cub—and You Can Track the Family as They Wander Around the Hudson Bay

Researchers were surprised when they spotted an additional cub with this mother polar bear. Dave Sandford / Discover Churchill When female polar bear X33991 first emerged from her maternal den in ...