Use whatever you have at hand to hit the bear in the face." Brown bears fishing for salmon on the Moraine River on August 20, 2017 in Katmai National Park, Alaska.

Instead, less than three feet away from them, was a Marsican bear. "I practically screamed in the bear's face," Castagna said. In response, the bear snarled at her and tried to reach her with its paw.

Video footage from the Nov. 8 incident, captured by the runner Laura Gold herself, shows a brown bear charge towards her with two cubs as she encounters them on the trail.

That's terrifying! Not only is this a huge bear to come face to face with, but it's also a brown bear, or specifically, a grizzly.These bears are notorious for being fierce and unrelenting ...

In 2022 a research paper linked 38 reindeer and 18 moose deaths to a single 13-year-old female brown bear. Recent estimates peg the number of brown bears in Sweden at between 1,600 and 2,800.

Two Juneau residents hunting on Admiralty Island at the end of September ended up face-to-face with a brown bear. Luckily, everyone walked away from the encounter – but not without some battle ...

Researchers observed this brown bear picking up a rock and using it to scratch his face, the first example of tool use by a brown bear. (Image credit: Volker Deecke) In July 2010, a brown bear had ...

When the bear let go, Minish turned his face to the ground and put his hands over his head. ... brown bear. And it was just, wrong place, wrong time for me and the bear. And everything happened so ...