Fat Bear Week started Wednesday, that glorious autumn tradition when anyone with an internet connection can vote for the plumpest brown bear in Alaska’s Katmai National Park. Last year, more than ...

Adrian Treves, the director of the Carnivore Coexistence Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, answers all of your ...

Hibernating bears can’t help us escape long plane flights or unforgiving winters — but they may help us prevent blood clots. The bears, during hibernation, prevent blood clots in their own bodies by ...

A paper reveals a persuasive case that an extinct human ancestor tried to hibernate. The evidence is from nutritional ...

Scientists at the University of Utah are looking at how bears and other mammals hibernate in an effort to find genetic clues for combating human obesity and related diseases. By finding the right ...

It’s common knowledge that animals who hibernate such as bears and ground squirrels, reduce their energy demands and use their fat reserves to meet their energy needs until spring. Yet, it has been a ...

Mark the bear, who used to live at a restaurant in Albania, is competing in his first March Napness competition with FOUR PAWS Courtesy of FOUR PAWS While basketball fans prepare for March Madness, ...

Getting humans safely to a place like Mars is going to pose all kinds of scientific challenges, and a particularly pressing one centers on the rather important issue of human health. Astronauts ...

The US Humane Society released a sickening surveillance video this week, showing a father and son from Alaska illegally killing a black bear and her two newborn cubs — while they were still ...