Shoppers at Westfarms Mall in West Hartford, Conn., caught sight of a big black bear running across the mall's parking lot on Friday, April 11. Officers with the state's Department of Energy & ...

Black bears like this one look for holes big enough to squeeze into, unlike grizzlies, who dig their own dens. The den of a black bear can be up to four feet in diameter .

A search party found a bear with waders in its mouth and partial human remains nearby. A hunter in the search party shot dead the 1.5-meter-long bear. Later, DNA testing confirmed the remains ...