En route to a different location, a Canadian wildlife photographer pulled over to investigate tracks in fresh snow, leading him to a chance encounter with the area’s most famous grizzly bear and the photo series of a lifetime. Jason Leo Bantle, 50, lives in Canmore, Alberta. A trained biologist specializing in large carnivores, he is the…

Visitors of Detroit Zoo can now witness the budding friendship between a polar bear cub and orphan baby grizzly at the sight’s renowned Arctic Ring of Life habitat. The adorable white and brown balls of fur can be seen rolling about, swimming, and tussling together in the 4 acres of lush grounds, filled with tall…

HELENA Mont.—A grizzly bear that pulled a California woman from her tent and killed her this week was fatally shot early Friday by wildlife officials using night-vision goggles to stake out a chicken coop that the animal raided near the small Montana town where the woman was attacked. Federal wildlife workers shot the bear shortly…

HELENA Mont.—A grizzly bear attacked and killed a bicyclist who was camping in a small western Montana town early Tuesday, triggering an intensive search for the bruin by wildlife officials and law enforcement officers who planned to kill the animal, authorities said. The pre-dawn attack happened in Ovando, a town of fewer than 100 people…