As retired biologists, we’re saddened to see the agency in which we once proudly served reduced to shooting bears and wolves ...

Kodiak bears (Ursus arctos middendorffi) are a subspecies of the brown bear and are native to the Kodiak Archipelago in Alaska. Known for their exceptional size, these bears are a keystone species, ...

All of them are from Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, which spans nearly 2 million acres and four different islands in Southwest Alaska, including nearly two-thirds of Kodiak Island. The refuge was ...

So they do have a point. The Alaska ruling, in case you’re wondering, was on a challenge to an Alaska regulation allocating permits to hunt Kodiak bears. The plaintiff, a guy frustrated by not getting ...

The biggest-ever Kodiak bear was a giant named Clyde at the Dakota Zoo. At his heaviest measured weight, he was a whopping 2,130 pounds (966 kg) — about as heavy as a small car.

KG: “The Kodiak Bear Wars” occurred on Kodiak Island in the 1960s. Ranchers wanted to eradicate bears and make Kodiak a ranching community so an aerial gunning program was established to kill ...

There are many places where you might come face-to-face with bears outside the USA, and these are some of the typical bear sighting destinations ...

A Kodiak bear would win a fight against a Siberian tiger. We examined a Siberian tiger vs grizzly bear fight and initially awarded the win to the tiger. However, the size difference between a Siberian ...

Large male coastal or Kodiak males may see hind feet that measure up to 16 inches in length and 11 inches in width. For further reading, check our other Snopes fact-checks related to bears.

We got our first look at the big brown bear under conditions that made a stalk out of the question. It was late evening, and although the May twilight is long on the Alaska Peninsula, there was hardly ...

If you are out on a long hike or camping you’re probably hoping you don’t run into any bears. For some hunters, it’s the ...