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.

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.

It's not every day you encounter a polar bear. However, there's one remote, abandoned building in the Arctic that some polar ...

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 video showing a man from Russia playing and instructing his bear to play a harmonica went viral on social media. The clip has shocked many people.

Melting Siberia permafrost recently revealed an ancient brown bear that roamed the Earth centuries before the common era. Now, researchers are cutting the bear open in hopes of achieving a ...

See our best wildlife photos from 2022. A polar bear sleeping in a field of flowers, a fish that looks like seaweed, and leopards courting in the mist: These 21 images are our favorite animal ...

Editor's note: This story contains graphic images. DNIPRO, Ukraine — When Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February, Petya Petrova didn't hesitate. She and a team of other German animal rights ...

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