According to MassWildlife, there are at least 4,500 black bears in Massachusetts and their range is expanding eastward.

Knowing and adapting to the ideal schedule for your sleep chronotype could improve your rest and help you accomplish daily tasks more efficiently, sleep experts say.

A zoo in England said the first brown bear to undergo brain surgery has awakened from hibernation and appears to be back to his old self.

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 ...