The ancestors of our furry cats and dogs once looked similar to today's modern mongoose, a mammal with a long body and small, ...

The Arctic has changed dramatically in the past 20 years, a new report shows, as temperatures skyrocket and ice rapidly melts ...

Warming temperatures appear to be driving genetic mutations in some polar bears to help them survive the shifting climatic ...

Across the Arctic, one bear stands apart from all the others, not just in size but in how it looks at us. While most large ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and became ...

Researchers say the findings, the first documented case of rising temperatures driving genetic change in a mammal, offer a ...

A Beaver County hunter bagged a massive, record-setting black bear while hunting over the weekend. Nate Miller told Pittsburgh Action News he was in his hunting spot in Moraine State Park in Butler ...

What does Pauri in Uttarakhand have in common with Japan? A rising fear of bear attacks and a government response that experts say is flawed. The Uttarakhand Forest Department has issued an order that ...

The U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Japan released a "'wildlife alert' in November following 7 fatal attacks in October Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Wildlife authorities are advising the public to be cautious after a bear attacked two 87-year-old residents in their home off Kingsbury Grade in Nevada, near Stateline and South Lake Tahoe. It ...