The bear, affectionately known by neighbors as Barry, was ultimately lured into a trap with apples, peanut butter and rotisserie chicken Shyla Watson is a digital news editor at PEOPLE.

According to folklore, the amount of black on a woolly bear caterpillar is said to correspond to how bad the winter will be in the area it’s found. The more black fur the longer and harsher the winter ...

An upper incisor belonging to a woolly mammoth has been discovered in a ravine in the commune of Săpoca, Buzău County, in southern Romania. The incisor has entered the national cultural ...

A father and son died after a terrifying bear attack in a forest in India. The duo had ventured into the area to gather wood when they were viciously attacked by an enraged sloth bear in the ...

Three years later she was a media star after giving birth to Hamish - the first polar bear cub to be born in the UK in 25 years. Visitor numbers to the park soared and its gift shop was stuffed ...

When you think of venomous animals, caterpillars probably aren't the first thing that comes to mind. Snakes, of course. Scorpions and spiders, too. But caterpillars? Yes, indeed. The world turns ...

Among its first rewilding goals: bringing back the woolly mammoth. The last, isolated mammoth populations died out 4,000 years ago, with their extinction blamed on hunting by humans and climate ...

Ben Lamm’s start-up, Colossal Biosciences, has billed itself as the world’s first ‘de-extinction’ company - Colossal Science ...

The deep bonds between a horse and their human have been at the centre of many wonderful films. Azaad, which has two men, senior and junior, vying for the affections of a beautiful beast, should have ...

Woolly mammoths went extinct around 4,000 years ago, but scientists claim America will soon see the prehistoric animal in 2028. Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based biotechnology and genetic ...