The Bear animal symbol is the sixth spirit totem on the Amerindian shamans' Wheel of Life. It corresponds to the end of summer and to our western astrological sign of Virgo, to which it can bring ...

Inspired by his own struggles, Eric Wyatt founded Burden the Bear to show recipients of its stuffed animals that they’re not alone in grief, illness or isolation.

The stories behind simple Christmas symbols are anything but. Consider the candy cane. Its red and white stripes might signify the sacrifice and purity of Jesus, or they're a 19th-century candy ...

The last California grizzly bear, who is named Monarch, is stuffed and on display at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Calif. Monarch died in 1911, having lived out his life in ...