The Brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear species found across Eurasia and North America. In North America, the populations of Brown bears are called Grizzly bears, while the subspecies that inhabits the Kodiak Islands of Alaska is known as the...
The Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a hypercarnivorous bear found within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is the largest extant bear species, as well as the largest extant land...
The American black bear (Ursus americanus) is a medium-sized bear endemic to North America. It is the continent's smallest and most widely distributed bear species. American black bears are omnivores, with their diets varying greatly depending on...
The Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi ), also known as the Kodiak brown bear, sometimes the Alaskan brown bear, inhabits the islands of the Kodiak Archipelago in southwest Alaska. It is the largest recognized subspecies or population of the...
The California grizzly bear (Ursus arctos californicus ) is an extinct population or subspecies of the brown bear, generally known (together with other North American brown bear populations) as the grizzly bear. "Grizzly" could have meant...
The Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus) is a medium-sized bear species native to Asia. It is unique among bears in that it is largely adapted to an arboreal lifestyle. It is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, and is threatened by...
The Kermode bear, sometimes called the spirit bear (Ursus americanus kermodei ), is a subspecies of the American black bear and lives in the Central and North Coast regions of British Columbia, Canada. It is the official provincial mammal of British...
The Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos ) is one of the most common subspecies of the brown bear, and is found in much of Eurasia. It is also known as the European brown bear, common brown bear, common bear, and colloquially by many other...
The Himalayan brown bear (Ursus arctos isabellinus ), also known as the Himalayan red bear, isabelline bear or Dzu-Teh, is a subspecies of the brown bear and is known from northern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, northern India, west China and...
The Ussuri brown bear (Ursus arctos lasiotus ), also known as the Ezo brown bear or the black grizzly bear, is a subspecies of the brown bear or a population of the Eurasian brown bear (U. a. arctos ). One of the largest brown bears, a very large...
The Syrian brown bear (Ursus arctos syriacus or Ursus arctos arctos ) is a relatively small subspecies of brown bear native to the Middle East and the Caucasus mountain range.
The Tibetan bear or Tibetan blue bear (Ursus arctos pruinosus ) is a subspecies of the brown bear (Ursus arctos ) found in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. It is also known as the Himalayan blue bear, Himalayan snow bear, Tibetan brown bear, or the...
The Florida black bear (Ursus americanus floridanus ) is a subspecies of the American black bear that has historically ranged throughout most of Florida and the southern portions of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. The large black-furred bears...
The Kamchatka brown bear (Ursus arctos beringianus ), also known as the "Far Eastern brown bear", or in Russian: Камчатский бурый медведь, romanized: Kamchatsky bury medved, is a subspecies of brown bear.
The Marsican brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos, formerly Ursus arctos marsicanus ), also known as the "Apennine brown bear", and orso bruno marsicano in Italian, is a critically endangered population or subspecies of the Eurasian brown bear, with a...
The Gobi bear (Ursus arctos gobiensis ), known in Mongolian as the Mazaalai (Мазаалай), is a subspecies of the brown bear (Ursus arctos ) that is found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. It is listed as critically endangered by the Mongolian Redbook of...
The Alaska Peninsula brown bear or "peninsular grizzly" is a colloquial nomenclature for a brown bear that lives in the coastal regions of southern Alaska, although according to other sources, it is a population of the mainland grizzly bear...
The cinnamon bear (Ursus americanus cinnamomum ) is both a highly variable color morph and a subspecies of the American black bear, native to the central, eastern, and western areas of the United States and Canada. Established populations are found...
The Himalayan black bear (Ursus thibetanus laniger ) is a subspecies of the Asian black bear found in the Himalayas of India, Bhutan, Nepal, China, and Pakistan.
The Formosan black bear (臺灣黑熊, Ursus thibetanus formosanus ), also known as the Taiwanese black bear or white-throated bear, is a subspecies of the Asiatic black bear. It was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1864. Formosan black bears are...
The Japanese black bear (Ursus thibetanus japonicus ) is a subspecies of the Asian black bear that lives on two main islands of Japan: Honshu and Shikoku. There are said to be 10,000 black bears in Japan. The population of black bears on Shikoku is...
The glacier bear (Ursus americanus emmonsii ), sometimes referred to as the "blue bear", is a subspecies of American black bear with silver-blue or gray hair endemic from Southeast Alaska, to the extreme northwestern tip of British Columbia, and to...
Ursus maritimus tyrannus (meaning tyrant polar bear) is an extinct subspecies of polar bear, known from a single fragmentary ulna found in the gravels of the Thames at Kew Bridge, London. It was named by the Finnish paleontologist Björn Kurtén in...
The East Siberian brown bear (Ursus arctos collaris) is a population or subspecies of brown bear which ranges from eastern Siberia, beginning at the Yenisei river, north to the Arctic Circle, as far as Trans-Baikaliya, the Stanovoy Range, the Lena...
The Louisiana black bear (Ursus americanus luteolus ), one of 16 subspecies of the American black bear, is found in parts of Louisiana, mainly along the Mississippi River Valley and the Atchafalaya River Basin. It was classified as 'threatened'...
MacFarlane's bear was a grizzly bear killed in Canada's Northwest Territories in 1864. Inuit hunters shot and killed an enormous yellow-furred bear and gave the skin and skull to the Fort Anderson post manager and amateur naturalist Roderick...
Ursus etruscus (the Etruscan bear) is an extinct species of bear, endemic to Europe, Asia and North Africa during the Pliocene through Pleistocene, living from ~5.3 million to 100,000 years ago.
The Ussuri black bear (Ursus thibetanus ussuricus ), also known as the Manchurian black bear, is a large subspecies of the Asian black bear native to the Far East, including the Korean Peninsula.
Ursus deningeri (Deninger's bear) is an extinct species of bear, endemic to Eurasia during the Pleistocene for approximately 1.7 million years, from 1.8 to 0.1 million years ago.The range of this bear has been found to encompass both Europe and...
The Newfoundland black bear (Ursus americanus hamiltoni ) is a morphologically distinct subspecies of the American black bear, which is endemic to the island of Newfoundland in Atlantic Canada. The Newfoundland black bear is generally larger than...
The steppe brown bear (Ursus arctos priscus ) is a disputed extinct subspecies of brown bear that lived in Eurasia during either the Pleistocene or the early Holocene epochs, but its geological age is uncertain. Fossils of the bear have been found...
Ursus minimus (the Auvergne bear) is an extinct species of bear, endemic to Europe during the Pliocene and Pleistocene, living from 5.3 to 1.8 Mya, existing for about 3.5 million years.U. minimus appears to have given rise to Ursus etruscus. The...
The Haida Gwaii black bear (Ursus americanus carlottae ), also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands black bear, is a morphologically distinct subspecies of the American black bear. The most significant morphological differences are its large size,...
The Balochistan (or Baluchistan) black bear (Ursus thibetanus gedrosianus ) is a subspecies of the Asian black bear occurring in the Balochistan Mountains of southern Pakistan and Iran. It has an unusually thin coat for an Asian black bear, but this...
Ursus ingressus (the Gamssulzen Cave bear) is an extinct species of the family Ursidae that lived in Central Europe during the Late Pleistocene. It is named after the Gamssulzen Cave in Austria, where the holotype of this species was found.
The Stickeen brown bear (Ursus arctos stikeenensis ), also known as Stikine brown bear, is a large, North American brown bear that is most commonly dark brown in color but can also range from blonde to black, featuring a distinctive hump on its...
Ursus rossicus (the Pleistocene small cave bear) is an extinct species of bear that lived in the steppe regions of northern Eurasia and Siberia during the Pleistocene.
Ursus dolinensis (the Gran Dolina bear) is an extinct mammalian carnivore species of the Ursidae family. Its fossilized remains were unearthed from the lowest layers of the stratigraphic sequence at the archaeological and paleontological site of...
The Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) is a population or subspecies of the Brown bear that is found in North America. Native American tribes living among Brown bears often view them with a mixture of awe and fear. North American brown bears...