Bear News

Edmonton - Videos go viral for many reasons but footage of grizzly bears in Alberta became an unlikely global sensation, after Glenn Naylor, 58, an Alberta Parks officer, uploaded 'What goes on when you are not around'.

A chemical extracted from the gallbladder of a bear stops a cellular stress response and stalls the progression of type-1 diabetes in mice.

An 80-year-old shepherd headbutted and kicked a bear, which ended up tossing him off of a cliff, and survived the ordeal.

Irkutsk - A Russian couple hid in an outside bath house for several hours on Friday, Oct. 4 after a bear broke into their home and ate the borsch - beetroot soup - they had just made. The bear was attracted to the home by the delicious aromas from the cooling soup.

Colorado Springs - An enterprising black bear has been caught on CCTV video, calmly helping himself to a trash bin full of food behind a restaurant in Colorado Springs.

Jamison - Four Pennsylvania residents teamed up and attempted to free a bear that has its head stuck in a plastic jar of cooking oil for at least 11 days.

People usually have to worry about other humans breaking into vehicles, but one neighborhood is on the watch for a bear hitting up cars and trucks.

An Alaskan man, who was with his family, ended up walking away with only minor injuries after he got into a hands-on scuffle with the animal.

A "yeti" that was reportedly sighted on several occasions in the Mount Shoria region of southern Russia has been determined through DNA tests to be an American bear that probably escaped from a circus.

Locust Grove - A new email about an old story is making its rounds through cyberspace, chronicling the story of Leo the lion, Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear.