Grizzly bears aren't native to Florida, but the memo never reached two Kodiak cubs discovered by a man in December. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office shared a video on social media Wednesday of ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. — Two Kodiak bear cubs, a unique subspecies of the brown bear, were found in a rural area of the Florida Panhandle thousands of miles away from their native home, authorities said. The ...

A still image from a video of Kodiak bear cubs found on a Florida road in December 2023 after escaping from an animal handler. (From Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office) A video of a pair of Kodiak brown ...

A pair of Kodiak brown bear cubs unique to Alaska were found roaming the Florida Panhandle and the encounter got even stranger when they tried to play with the responding sheriff’s deputy. The ...

A Florida deputy was in for quite a surprise when she got an unsuspecting early morning emergency call. Video from the Okaloosa Sheriff's Department shows the deputy pulling up on a rural road around ...

A pair of bear cubs, members of the Kodiak subspecies of grizzly bear, were spotted on a Florida roadside more than 3,600 miles from their Alaska habitat. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office released ...

A highly contagious form of avian influenza was found in a Kodiak brown bear cub. It’s one of only four mammals in Alaska known to have contracted the virus, and the first brown bear to be found with ...

OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. – Two Kodiak bear cubs native to southern Alaska were found wandering on a rural Florida roadway, and the incident was captured on an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy’s ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska wildlife center that takes in orphaned and injured animals is missing one of its larger residents. The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center announced Monday that a ...