Florida wildlife officials will talk Thursday night about a possible black bear hunt, which would be the first in the state since 2015. Hunting groups say the black bear population can handle a ...

the short-faced bear and the Florida spectacled bear. Both went extinct during the last Ice Age, about 10,000 years ago. We have a total of three bear species in North America. The black bear ...

FWC Executive Director Roger Young said that the first meeting, open to anyone "who wants to provide feedback" on a potential ...

The extinct cat Miopanthera lorteti, for example, is called Lortet's cat in its description and the bear Tremarctos floridanus is called the Florida spectacled bear. "For a lot of extinct mammals ...