You can tell the difference between a black bear and Kodiak by the hump on their back. They can rear up on their hind legs ...

New York state's black bear population in the third largest in the eastern United States. During the warmer months of the year, a black bear leaves its day bed, a shallow depression on the ground, in ...

Last year's hunt yielded perhaps the largest black in Louisiana when Deron Santiny of Lafayette landed the 696-pound male bear in Tensas Parish. Louisiana's black bear population all but ...

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries welcomes three black bear cubs into the world after conservation efforts. See the cubs here.