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a large male bear stands in a river

New Fat Bear Week children’s book turns Katmai’s famous bears into wrestlers

By Laura Baisas

a bear eating a salmon

Meet Bucky Dent, one of Katmai’s most innovative bears

By Laura Baisas

car interior ripped apart

Bear dies after getting trapped in hot car

By Popular Science Team

two brown bears nuzzling each other

Don’t worry, Katmai’s brown bears didn’t vanish from Brooks Falls

By Laura Baisas

a bear cub sits by a tree with porcupine quills in its hand

Katmai bear cub spotted with a paw full of porcupine quills

By Laura Baisas

Fuzzy brown bear mother with cute cub in medium shot.

Why do mother bears kill cubs? The answer is complicated.

By Jennifer Byrne

bear cubs with mother

Mother bear kills cub in second tragic incident at Brooks River

By Popular Science Team

A woman in a dress feeds a baby pygmy hippo using a milk bottle. The vintage photograph appears to be from between 1935 and 1945.

7 peculiar pets in history: From a beer-drinking elk to the Pope’s elephant

By Niranjana Rajalakshmi

adult bear seen over cub's body

Mother brown bear kills cub on Katmai Bear Cam

By Annie Colbert

a baby beluga whale with gray skin swims with two adult whales with white skin

Beluga whale live cam launches. YAY!

By Laura Baisas

a bear standing above a waterfall grabs a salmon in its teeth

Fat Bear season officially kicks off today with live cam

By Laura Baisas

Chikao Umezawa, head of JA Kisarazu-shi, posed for a photo beside a robot named "Super Monster Wolf", a solar powered robot designed to scare away wildlife from farmers crops in Kisarazu, southwestern Chiba Prefecture, Japan on August 10, 2017. Wolf Bot uses an infrared ray sensor when wild animals approach. It begins to intimidate wild animals by flashing red LED lights from its eyes on and off and blaring 48 repeated different types of loud sounds. (Photo by Richard Atrero de Guzman/NUR Photo) (Photo by Richard Atrero de Guzman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears

a grizzly bear in the woods

CAUTION: That dead elk in Yellowstone could be grizzly bear bait

By Margherita Bassi

a brown bear eating a piece of salmon in a river

Fat Bear Week champion Chunk spotted taking a stroll in Alaska

By Laura Baisas

a black bear cub up in a tree and looking directly at the camera

Litter of 5 bear cubs spotted in Connecticut for the first time

By Laura Baisas

three polar bear cubs curled up with their mother

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 announces People’s Choice winners

By Popular Science Team

a giraffe and her baby watch an airplane land

32 incredible wildlife images from the Nature Photography Contest

By Popular Science Team

a grizzly bear stands on a bison carcass

Yellowstone’s first grizzly bear of 2026 emerges from his den

By Laura Baisas

a polar bear cub clings to its mother

24 beautiful images from the World Nature Photography Awards 2026

By Popular Science Team

a polar bear mother closes her eyes while laying down with two cubs. one cub is biting the other's cheek

11 cool photos to celebrate International Polar Bear Day

By Popular Science Team