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News Articles: bears

From left: a second lady, a brown bear, a comedian.

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  • National

The week's quiz has group chat drama. And don't worry, the answers aren't classified

This week's news coverage featured more Greenland drama than usual. And if you've been paying attention to it all, you'll get at least one question right.

March 28, 2025
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By:
  • Holly J. Morris
Bear Michal sleeps on the ground at Bear Sanctuary Müritz in Germany in May 2015.

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  • Animals

March Madness is underway. So is March Napness, the tournament for hibernating bears

A handful of rescued bears in Europe are competing in March Napness, a bracket-style tournament to see what bear can stay in hibernation the longest.

March 26, 2025
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By:
  • Kaity Kline
The California Department of Insurance says detectives found this bear costume at the home of the suspects accused of orchestrating fake bear attacks on their vehicles.

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  • Strange News

They told insurers a bear damaged their car. But it was actually a person in a costume

Four LA residents allegedly defrauded multiple insurance companies of over $141,000. A wildlife expert who reviewed footage of the incidents said that the culprit was "clearly a human in a bear suit."

November 14, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Bear 402, seen here fishing with her yearlings in 2019, was killed in a fight with another bear this fall, delaying the start of Fat Bear Week at at Katmai National Park & Preserve in Alaska.

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  • Animals

Fat Bear Week delayed after a large bear kills a rival bear

The scene was relayed by a live webcam of bears on Alaska's Brooks River. “This is very difficult to watch and comprehend,” said Naomi Boak of the nonprofit Katmai Conservancy.

October 01, 2024
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Jenny Gusse and Doug Inglis worked together doing scientific research at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, a government agency. In their free time, they were avid outdoors enthusiasts.

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  • Animals

The couple killed by a bear in Banff were able to send an SOS text: 'Bear attack bad'

The two backpackers in Canada's Banff National Park seem to have emptied a can of bear spray, trying to get the animal to leave their camp. When rescuers arrived, the bear charged at them.

October 06, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
32 Chunk, known for his girth and a scar on his muzzle, has become one of the most dominant males on the Brooks River. But is that enough for him to win Fat Bear Week?

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  • Animals

Chonky and they know it: Voting starts in Fat Bear Week

Explaining the draw of gawking at massive bears, a park ranger says, "You can follow the bears for years and really get to know their lives and their personalities and their soap operas."

October 04, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Two bear cousins became siblings this summer — and the new family fishes and lives together, led by 910.

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  • Animals

From hangry to chonky: Fat Bear Week is coming

There can be only one — and they shall be rotund. The brown bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska have been plumping themselves up, to prepare for a new hibernation season.

September 22, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
A large black bear known as 64F was captured by state authorities in the area around Lake Tahoe, Calif., on Friday after being responsible for at least 21 home break-ins.

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  • Animals

'Hank the Tank,' the bear behind 21 home invasions, has been captured near Lake Tahoe

Bear 64F is believed to be one of three animals who've broken into dozens of homes in South Lake Tahoe in the last year and helped themselves to messy meals, enchanting the internet.

August 07, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
Bear from the movie Cocaine Bear

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  • News

Yes, 'Cocaine Bear' is a real movie. It's also a true story from Georgia

Yes, "Cocaine Bear" is a real movie. And it might be a hit. Since the trailer first debuted for Elizabeth Banks' very, very loosely based-on-a-true-story comedy has stoked a rabid zeitgeist.

February 27, 2023
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  • Associated Press
480 Otis, who is believed to be around 25 years old, emerged from hibernation looking very thin and facing health problems. But he deftly navigated both inter-bear relationships and a salmon-rich river to put on much-needed weight.

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  • National

Fat Bear Week has a champion: All hail 480 Otis

Who is the fattest bear of all? For the fourth time, the answer is 480 Otis, a brown bear who didn't let his lack of two canine teeth stop him from packing on the pounds.

October 06, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
The survivor of a bear attack was rescued from a remote mining camp near Nome, Alaska, by a Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak crew earlier this month.

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  • Animals

Repeatedly Confronted By A Bear, A Man Is Rescued After He Writes 'SOS' On A Shack

A man in Alaska, who said that he had been mauled by a bear and that the animal had returned to his camp and harassed him every night for a week, was rescued by the Coast Guard.

July 23, 2021
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  • Dalia Faheid
Girl Shoves Bear

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  • Animals

A Teen Shoves A Bear To Save Her Family's Dogs

Video of the terrifying encounter in a Southern California backyard shows Hailey Morinico using both hands to push the bear off a wall and break up the bear vs. dog confrontation.

June 01, 2021
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Then UGA graduate student Mike Hooker takes samples in 2013 from a bear killed in the one day middle Georgia bear hunt. The study Hooker worked on established limits on how many of the 400 or so mile Georgia bears could be killed every year.

Only One Bear Taken In One-Day Middle Georgia Hunt

Georgia has bears in the mountains to the north and in the swamps in the south, but there’s also a small population in the middle of the state, about...

December 27, 2019
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship

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