While the polar bear is huge, it is not the biggest bear ever to walk around in North America. That honor would go to the ...

The fate of humanity might have looked radically different if Ice Age titans like the mammoth and saber-toothed cat had ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

“Both hikers are in stable conditions and recovering in hospital.” Two hikers were attacked by a grizzly bear after they encountered the mother and her two cubs on a trail in Canada, authorities said.

A grizzly bear attacked and seriously injured two hikers in Canada, sending both to a hospital, local wildlife officials reported. British Columbia Conservation Officer Services (COS) confirmed the ...

The first known hand fossils from an extinct human relative have been unearthed in Kenya, revealing a species with unexpected dexterity and a gorilla-like grip. The hand bones, which were discovered ...

Cave tour operations at Mammoth Cave National Park are closed, according to an alert on the National Park Service website. Other areas within the park “remain as accessible as possible,” the website ...

Cave exploration has fascinated Dave Foster almost his entire life. As a Virginia youth, he would find himself engrossed in exploration stories like the sci-fi expedition classic “Journey to the ...

Vasi the sloth bear is using his new limb to dig, climb and play at Bannerghatta Bear Rescue Centre in India Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...

John Woinarski is a director of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, a member of the Biodiversity Council, and co-chair of the IUCN Australasian Marsupials and Monotremes Specialist Species Group.

The Gunma Prefectural Government Office said a bear attacked two men in a supermarket in Numata City on Oct. 7. Both of them sustained non-life-threatening injuries In a separate incident, a man was ...