An man and his dog were mauled to death by a black bear in Jerome, Florida. The 89-year-old man's death marks the first ...

New information on Florida’s first fatal bear attack revealed the culprit was a 263-pound black bear that broke into the ...

The state’s wildlife agency will test the bears’ DNA to determine if any of them had attacked and killed an 89-year-old man.

Officials say lab results have connected one of three black bears killed by wildlife officers in southwest Florida to a fatal ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has concluded its initial investigation into what is now confirmed be ...

In 2015, the state of Florida gave hunters seven days to harvest 300 bears. It was the first bear hunt allowed in the state ...

The plan for a Florida bear hunt was well in the works before the fatal attack of a Collier County man. An early draft of ...

In Florida, a rare and tragic case for the black bear species occurred on May 2. An 89-year-old man, Robert Markel, and his ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) says the remains of one of the three black bears killed earlier ...

Robert Markel and his dog were found mauled to death on May 5, 2025, in a black bear attack in rural Jerome in Collier County, Florida.

Florida may let people hunt bears for the first time in 10 years, although the plan was in the works before a man and his dog ...

The partial remains of an 89 year-old Florida man were found in one of the bears Florida Fish and Wildlife officials captured ...