In areas where the two species overlap, a blonde-coated black bear like this one can easily fool you. Nathan Allred / Adobe Stock. In terms of fur color, black bears can range from black to brown ...

Internet users have dubbed him the "unluckiest bear in the world," making Joey, a bear with unusual coloring, the stuff of online urban legend.As the story goes, this "albino brown bear ...

Coat coloring is determined by genetics, which some experts speculate could have led to white-colored brown bears. (This is not the same as albinism, a condition in which the absence of melanin in ...

TYRP1 R153C was associated with the cinnamon color in black bears and the chocolate and light brown colors, meaning it accounts for almost all of the color diversity among U. americanus.