PENSACOLA, Fla. — Two Kodiak bear cubs, a unique subspecies of the brown bear, were found in a rural area of the Florida Panhandle thousands of miles away from their native home, authorities said.

Bears are a type of mammal that can be found in many parts of the world. From the tiny, ... from Kodiak bears in Alaska to the Syrian brown bear in the Middle East.

The thousands of brown bears that live on Kodiak Island are awakening from hibernation earlier than usual, and police have logged multiple calls of bear sightings as the enormous animals search ...

So how did two Kodiak bear cubs end up almost 4,000 miles away in the panhandle of Florida? Florida Fish and Wildlife officials say the animals escaped from a nearby “bear trainer” who was ...

Dr. Kimberlee Beckmen, a wildlife veterinarian for the Fish and Game, says the virus doesn’t spread between mammals, but it can affect scavengers like Kodiak brown bears.

While two Kodiak bear cubs who were found wandering a Florida highway in December are now safe inside the Panama City Zoo, the same cannot be said for the man who brought the cubs to the Florida ...

But those numbers don't include Kodiak Bears, which were found in Okaloosa County in December. ... John Ham owns 40 animals, from birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles in Pensacola.

KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — Alaska wildlife officials are considering killing nuisance bears in Kodiak if they don't go into hibernation soon. City manager Mike Tvenge told the council last week ...

A rancher on Kodiak Island said bears have killed more than 30 of his cows this year. Skip to content. America's Newspaper. 1. Subscribe. Give a gift. Sign In ...

The Komminsk Family Kodiak Ridge houses three bears: Cody, Montana and the largest at nearly 1,500 pounds, Dodge. The exhibit gives the bears a larger living space.