A brown bear mauled a father and son to death when it broke into their Luchegorsk home in Russia just one day after slaughtering more than a dozen dogs in a nearby shelter.

For two years, a 36-year-old bear who performed during the 1980 Moscow Olympics has been kept with other retired circus animals in a rusty old bus parked on the outskirts of St. Petersburg.

Images of wild black bears dressed in human clothes have sparked uproar and calls for an end to the use of circus animals in Russia as a prominent activist speaks up ...

A polar bear was spotted wandering far from home into an industrial city in Russia after walking hundreds of miles in the wrong direction. 24/7 Live Houston Southwest Southeast Northwest Northeast ...

Scantily clad Russian models Maria Sidorova and Lidia Fetisova braved both the freezing cold and the claws of a massive bear as they kissed and hugged the 1400-pound not-so-teddybear named Stephen.

File photo. A polar bear touches the surface of the sea. Getty Images. Realistically however, technical fixes to human-wildlife conflict are only a temporary stopgap.

Russian paleontologists discovered a small cave bear skull with a hole in it. It's strong evidence that ice-age humans hunted the animals.

Russian officials opened a criminal investigation into the men who drove over a bear in heavy duty trucks in a YouTube video, leading to the animal's death.

MOSCOW -- An emaciated polar bear has been sighted in a Russian industrial city in Siberia, far south of its normal hunting grounds. The animal was also reportedly spotted at a garbage dump ...