Seeing any living thing suffer is one of the hardest things to watch. Feeling empathy for an animal in pain is intrinsically ...

A jaguar that snuck up on a photographer trying to spot an armadillo, a polar bear sitting on a sperm whale, and more take ...

Writer Stephen Leahy described their ritual earlier this year in National Geographic. Bears will wait "for hours by seals’ cone-shaped breathing holes in the sea ice. When a seal surfaces to breathe ...

Deandra Jones heard many stories about black bears when she was growing up on the Navajo Nation near the Chuska Mountains, ...

In Yellowstone National Park, it had been roughly five years since wildlife managers had to euthanize a bear — black or grizzly — for becoming food-conditioned or habituated around humans. But that ...

Standing on the platform at Brooks Falls in Alaska’s Katmai National Park, I wanted to warn the salmon and tell them, “Look before you leap!” I lost count of how many fish ended up in the mouth of the ...