The largest Kodiak Bear ever recorded was a captive bear named Clyde. He was a Kodiak bear that lived at the Dakota Zoo in ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. — Two Kodiak bear cubs, a unique subspecies of the brown bear, were found in a rural area of the Florida Panhandle thousands of miles away from their native home, authorities said.

After a disappointing polar bear hunt, Fred Bear dedicates a week to stalking Alaska's coastal brown bears. After a week of exasperating close calls, he finally sneaks within range of a giant ...

An Asiatic bear weighs between 40 and 100 kg while a Japanese brown bear can grow up to 400kg. But both are far from being the biggest bear on earth. Kodiak Brown Bears in Alaska, for example, can ...

The largest polar bear ever recorded was taken in Alaska in 1960. This giant was nearly 12 feet tall and weighed an incredible 2,209 pounds. The average adult male in the U.S. is about 5 feet 9 ...

A highly contagious form of avian influenza was found in a Kodiak brown bear cub. It’s one of only four mammals in Alaska known to have contracted the virus, and the first brown bear to be found ...

"Good morning, bear. How are you today? You're looking good today, bear." Fred Katelnikoff, an Alutiiq native guide, is speaking in a calm, measured, almost collegial tone. He doesn't need to ...

The largest brown bears in the world, Kodiak brown bears rely mostly on salmon and other fish in their diet. Grizzlies in Montana and Wyoming eat a lot of meat from ungulates, like elk. “Bears use the ...

These vintage photographs of bear biologists, bear hunters, and more were taken on the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge from 1950 through the 1980s. A collection of vintage hunting, fishing, and ...

"The Kodiak bear has been isolated from other brown bear populations for at least 40,000 years, and has developed some distinctive divergent characteristics, mainly the size." ...