A lawsuit challenges an Alaska program that allows killing bears as a way to rebuild a caribou herd

Conservation groups are suing over a program that authorizes killing brown and black bears as a way to help grow the size of ...
The Conversation

Alaska’s Fat Bear Week is more than a bit of fun – for the animals, size is a matter of survival

Antonio Uzal does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
KTVB

An Alaska brown bear has a new shiny smile after getting a huge metal crown for a canine tooth

DULUTH, Minn. — An Alaskan brown bear at the Lake Superior Zoo in northeastern Minnesota has a gleaming new silver-colored canine tooth in a first-of-its-kind procedure for a bear. The 800-pound ...
WDIO

First-of-its-kind metal crown for Tundra the brown bear

A landmark dental procedure took place at the Lake Superior Zoo on Monday, June 23. One of their two Alaskan coastal brown bears named Tundra received the first full-metal crown for a bear. It was ...
Boston Herald

Alaska’s Fat Bear Week kicks off with online voting to crown the most oversized ursine

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly ...