Animals are adept at adapting, but what happens when an animal is born with an innate advantage over its peers? Across countless species, genetic variations occur either through evolution or ...

A B.C. bear expert has put her stamp of approval on a new Canadian postal series featuring bears. The stamps show extreme close-up portraits of grizzly, black, polar, and Kermode bears. "The ...

A photographer is sharing his experience with spirit bears in a new book. Jack Plant compiled 90 photographs he took of spirit bears — a subspecies of black bear with a white coat — in the Great Bear ...

Sprawling along Canada's Pacific coast, from the northern tip of Vancouver Island to the Alaskan border, the Great Bear Rainforest is a protected wilderness area roughly twice the size of Belgium. It ...

After waiting quietly for seven or eight hours, imagine the reward of seeing a spirit bear, with its stunning white fur bright against the lush green forest landscape. That was a not uncommon reality ...

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