With bears preparing for winter hibernation, experts say fall is when people need to be the most aware.
Just remember: Bears are interested in food, not people. Still, it's good to keep safety in mind.
Watch the video above for expert tips.
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Kirk Price, an outdoorsman, told USA TODAY that his trail camera captured the two-legged animal in the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia.
The striking image had been circulating online for years but resurfaced on social media in mid-2024.
A humpback whale was freed from over 50 ropes and fishing gear in a four-day rescue off the western Canadian coast. Experts say such entanglements are on the rise.
SEATTLE (AP) — It's a good thing seals aren't on a humpback whale's menu.
A tiny and adorable pygmy hippo called Moo Deng has been melting hearts across social media. The miniature addition was born at the Khaow Kheow Open Zoo east of Bangkok, Thailand, and has been steadily going viral online for her cute looks and ferocious chomps. Her name means "bouncy pig" in Thai, a reference […]
The search for Cinnamon goes on after she fled Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World in Telford on Friday.
The creature has been released in the Azores after a successful rehabilitation programme.
Take extra caution around these birds.
A humpback whale tangled up in fishing lines and floats off Prince Rupert, British Columbia, was freed on September 6, after a four-day operation carried out by a specialized team from Fisheries and Oceans Canada, officials said.This footage shows the crew hooking ropes onto the gear wrapped around the whale and then working to rip or cut off the lines and floats, until finally the massive mammal is free.Fisheries and Oceans Canada said the whale was “severely entangled” and that the “disentanglement took over 50 rope cuts.”The department urged people “to report possible occurrences of whales being harassed or disturbed, and instances of collision with whales or whale entanglements.” Credit: Fisheries and Oceans Canada via Storyful
A new study suggests that there is a third type of wood—known as “midwood”—that could explain the nanoscale architecture of the tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera).
Conservation groups in Quebec are trying to save a rare, endangered salamander before it's too late. But the first step is finding the reclusive amphibian."It's hours and hours of flipping rocks and then finally we find one. There's always that joy," said Laura Molina as she searched a cold creek near Saint-Ferdinand, Que., about 200 kilometres east of Montreal.Molina is a project manager with Le Groupe de concertation des bassins versants de la zone Bécancour (GROBEC), a group that strives to p
A mountain lion that was put down by park rangers after it attacked a 5-year-old boy in Malibu Creek State Park was a young, underweight female.
Two baby beavers, known as kits, were first spotted in early July in an enclosure on the Ewhurst Park estate near Basingstoke.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe and Namibia have announced plans to slaughter hundreds of wild elephants and other animals to feed hunger-stricken residents amid severe drought conditions in the southern African countries.
Ipswich officials closed Crane Beach to swimmers after multiple Great White sharks were spotted in shallow waters, including some as close as 5 to 7 feet deep.
The big-eared baby is only the second mountain bongo to be born at Chester Zoo in the last 15 years.
As the Big Bear Alpine Zoo came under threat from the 39,000-acre Line fire, staffers evacuated most of its animals to sunny Palm Desert.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It's noisy, smelly, shy — and New Zealand’s bird of the year.
"That’s a trade-off I’d do," the actor responded to the former president's months-old demand.
‘The US faces two futures,’ according to editors at top science magazine
