The first time I saw a Kodiak bear was totally unexpected. It was early November, and a heavy snowfall had recently covered the mountains surrounding the town of Kodiak, Alaska. Daytime highs were ...

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 ...

OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. – Two Kodiak bear cubs native to southern Alaska were found wandering on a rural Florida roadway, and the incident was captured on an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy’s ...

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. The ...

Grizzly bears aren't native to Florida, but the memo never reached two Kodiak cubs discovered by a man in December. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office shared a video on social media Wednesday of ...

A pair of bear cubs, members of the Kodiak subspecies of grizzly bear, were spotted on a Florida roadside more than 3,600 miles from their Alaska habitat. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office released ...

A still image from a video of Kodiak bear cubs found on a Florida road in December 2023 after escaping from an animal handler. (From Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office) A video of a pair of Kodiak brown ...

An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy stumbled upon an unexpected scene in December; a couple of small bear cubs. Recommended Videos According to a post on social media, a man reported two bear ...

This story, “Premonition Bear,” appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outdoor Life. Duane Christensen felt uneasy as he drove to Anchorage, Alaska. He had, in fact, been feeling uneasy for two weeks. ...

A Kodiak “ice bear” during a recent snowfall. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Fogle Smith) Jennifer Fogle Smith is a wildlife photographer in Kodiak. She’s been documenting the island’s bears for over 20 ...