Long before modern North America existed, a massive and powerful bear dominated the land. Early humans were forced to compete ...

From Louisiana’s symbolic black bear comeback to Colorado’s million-dollar push to prevent conflicts, human-bear relationships are evolving in surprising ways. Around the world, some bear species are ...

Recent encounters between aggressive bears and humans in Great Smoky Mountains National Park prompted trail closures and ...

Following recent aggressive bear encounters with humans, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park closed two of its trails.

This result was unexpected since other research shows that underweight polar bears are more likely to attack people, which ...

Several human-bear encounters in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park this month have triggered trail closures and ...

Bears are back out in large numbers this year, and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) just released its 2026 State of the Bears report as we head into the warm months. The ...

Two encounters included a bear approaching visitors and taking backpacks. In another, a bear displayed aggressive behavior ...

There is ever-growing global interest in the nature and effects of human-nonhuman interactions (anthrozoology) in all sorts of situations, and it's not at all surprising to learn that humans ...