The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) is also known as the North American brown bear. It is the third-largest bear belonging to the family Ursidae, which includes eight species of bears.

What complicates matters even further is that some experts recognize several North American subspecies, while others recognize only two, the grizzly bear and the Kodiak bear of southern Alaska.

Old-growth hemlock, Sitka spruce and cedar climb the craggy slopes, growing as thick and dense as the fur on a grizzly bear’s back ... But elsewhere in North America, Homo sapiens greatly ...

Nearly a year after deciding to restore grizzly bears to the North Cascades Ecosystem, officials won't say exactly when the ...

“Grizzly bears once thrived in the North Cascades and they could again ... With European settlement of the American West, they were shot, poisoned and trapped to near extinction. Grizzly bears in the ...

The grizzly bear has one of the slowest reproductive rates of all North American mammals. LIFE CYCLE: Grizzly bears can live 20 to 25 years. FEEDING: Grizzly bears are omnivores, feeding on just about ...

On March 19, an employee at Grand Teton National Park spotted a grizzly north of the park’s boundary. Since then, other reports of bear sightings have been trickling in, including the first ...

They had slender limbs compared to the heavily-built bears we see today and stood tall, reaching 4 metres when reared up — more like a grizzly ... wandering the North American continent when ...

Grizzly bears, for example ... They live in northwestern North America, Europe and parts of Asia. American black bears live only in North America, and spectacled bears are found only in South ...

2014. Human-grizzly bear coexistence in the Blackfoot River Watershed, Montana: getting ahead of the conflict curve. In: Large carnivore conservation: integrating science and policy in the North ...