A 380-kilogram brown bear was found in a box trap Tuesday morning in Hokkaido, the northernmost prefecture of Japan. Footage taken on Monday night shows a brown bear approaching a box trap set near a ...

Beware the bears: that's the grizzly warning from the U.S. Embassy to Americans living in Japan, after a record spate of attacks in recent months. “Bear sightings and attacks have increased in parts ...

See why this Alaskan national park offers the world’s top bear-watching experience. A brown bear searches for salmon along a creek in Alaska’s Katmai National Park. The park supports one of the ...

Bear 32 Chunk was crowned the 2025 champion of Fat Bear Week. Chunk defeated runner-up Bear 856 with over 96,000 votes. The annual contest celebrates the survival of brown bears at Katmai National ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) --Alaska's Katmai National Park announced a brown bear dubbed 32 Chunk has claimed his first-ever Fat Bear Week championship title. The park said the bounteous bear bested a field of ...

As Alaska’s Fat Bear Week came to a close, the winner was a 1,200-pound bruiser who showed “adaptability” after a major injury. By Madison Malone Kircher After a weeklong battle to the finish, this ...

Members of the children’s book community gathered at the New York Historical in Manhattan on Thursday, September 25, for the 18th annual Carle Honors, recognizing individuals and organizations whose ...

The terrifying close encounter was caught on video by a security camera A man walking to his car in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, had a scary run-in with a brown bear Security footage shows the ...

Two hikers were hospitalized after fighting off a brown bear on an Alaskan trail, officials said Wednesday. The two people, who were not named by authorities, were about a quarter-mile up the Exit ...

Carle once told a young fan that if he were not an illustrator, he’d want to be a chef, and his love of food pervaded many of his works. “For Eric, food and cooking was really a way of connecting with ...

With Fat Bear Week—our highest of holidays honoring husky brown bears preparing for hibernation— finally upon us, many of us ursid admirers dream of Alaskan brown bears gorging on salmon with a ...

Sign up here to get The Boston Globe’s latest food stories delivered to your inbox once a week. Eric Carle’s best-known book is “The Very Hungry Caterpillar ...