You’d think an animal as heavy as a black bear, even a smallish one, would shinny and fumble a bit while climbing a slick tree trunk ... She’d obviously seen me moving and was now closing ...

That's because the bear was in a tree that's close to Ammons Hall. Wildlife officers tranquilized the bear and lowered it to the ground using a rope. Some students who were gathered nearby cheered ...

2. Mature Grizzly Bears Climb Trees Less Often Adult male grizzly bears can reach 800+ pounds. While females are significantly smaller, a mature female grizzly bear can still peg the scales at 500 ...

In a newly published paper in the Journal of Paleontology, we have done just that, using 15 million-year-old skeletons of a giant bear-like marsupial from ... flesh-eating kangaroos, tree-climbing ...