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 ...

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 ...

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 ...