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.

Kodiak bears are an island-specific subspecies of the brown bear, and they dwarf their cousins on the mainland. A large bear can easily weigh over 1,300 pounds and stand 10 feet tall.

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 body camera.

All of them are from Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, which spans nearly 2 million acres and four different islands in Southwest Alaska, including nearly two-thirds of Kodiak Island. The refuge was ...

While two Kodiak bear cubs who were found wandering a Florida highway in December are now safe inside the Panama City Zoo, the same cannot be said for the man who brought the cubs to the Florida ...

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 ...

Kodiak bears found in Okaloosa belonged to a 'self-proclaimed bear trainer' FWC discovered that the two cubs belonged to an Okaloosa resident who claimed to be a bear trainer.

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 ...

By late November and into early December, they head into their dens for hibernation — but not all of them. About 30% of the Kodiak male bear population don’t den at all, according to a state ...

Kodiak bears are considered the largest bears in the world, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. A large male can stand over 10 feet tall on its hind legs and 5 feet tall when ...