The American black bear (Ursus americanus) is one of eight species of bear in the bear family Ursidae. Black bears are native to North America and can be found in almost all 50 states.

Black bears are skilled anglers, moving with surprising stealth and grace before striking at an unsuspecting fish.

WINTER PARK, Fla. — Local Channel 9 viewer, Sarai Rose, submitted a video of a Florida Black Bear sighting alongside Aloma Avenue in Winter Park over the weekend.

A young black bear, who survived a harsh winter alone, is on the road to recovery after being found weak and malnourished near the trails of Hunter Mountain. The young bear, believed to have ...

A family of North American black bears at a Bedfordshire safari park have been spotted playing on an icy lake as they embraced the cold weather. Mother bear Phoenix and her four yearlings, ...

Black bears will eat up to 20,000 calories a day, mostly in the form of berries, grasses, leaves and nuts, while packing on the pounds for the winter.

Bears hibernate to deal with the lack of food in winter, not because of the cold," Dave Wattles, a black bear and furbearer biologist with Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife, said.

Several black bears spent the winter tucked into dens in northeastern Iowa, which wildlife experts say is a “step up the ladder” toward an established breeding population of bears in the state ...

Not anymore. The Florida black bear, a distinct subspecies of the American black bear, was listed as a threatened species from 1974 to 2012, when the population was considered recovered.

A woman filmed the bear breaking into her backyard bird feeder Wednesday. Bears are rare in the area but becoming more common in urban areas.