Fat Bear Week is officially upon us, and the competition this fall is fierce. To qualify, Alaska's brown bears (Ursus arctos) ...

Ridley Scott may have been ridiculed for portraying gladiators riding rhinos and scrapping with sharks in his latest film. But it seems the real Roman fighters did pick fights with a colourful array ...

A multidisciplinary study confirms the local origin of the animal, a six-year-old male, and reveals the injuries it suffered in combat and the stress of its prolonged captivity through the fractures ...

Chad Wilson, a wildlife biologist from the Utah Department of Wildlife Services, provides insights about the largest bear in ...

There was some real “grizzly” violence in the arena. It turns out that the “Gladiator” movies’ lurid depictions of man-on-beast gladiatorial bouts aren’t as far-fetched as some might believe — ...

The Brookfield Zoo Chicago this week euthanized the 30-year-old rescued brown bear due to his declining health, the zoo announced in a Facebook post Friday. “Axhi’s legacy is one of resilience, care, ...

Ariean Fabrizio Colton, a nurse in Kenai, Alaska, survived a brutal brown bear attack during her morning jog. The bear ambushed and dragged her over 100 yards, leaving her with severe facial and scalp ...

The battered skull of a brown bear discovered near a Roman amphitheater in Serbia reveals that the wild animal had been kept in captivity for years and was fighting off an infection when it died ...

A mother of three was viciously mauled and dragged 100 yards by a brown bear just moments after stepping outside her Alaska home for an early morning jog. Ariean Fabrizio Colton, 36, miraculously ...

Brookfield Zoo is remembering one of its beloved rescued brown bears, Axhi. Axhi was nearly 31 years old and was brought to the zoo in 1995. He was orphaned as a cub in Alaska after his mother was ...

BROOKFIELD, Ill. — The Brookfield Zoo announced last week the death of their brown bear Axhi. In a Facebook announcement posted on Friday August 29, the zoo said animal care teams made “the hard yet ...