Deep History

    1 Bears saved him from booze and drugs The story of the bear whisperer began on April 29th 1957, when Timothy Dexter was born in New York as the 3rd of 5 children. By his teenage years, he was a troubled child, partying hard and once getting so drunk that he smashed up the family car. By adulthood, he had adopted his mother's maiden name to … [Read more...] about The Story Of Timothy Treadwell, AKA Grizzly Man

  1 The bear family tree of 2022 Before we delve into the mysterious world of long extinct bear species, you first need to understand the bear situation today. All surviving bear species are grouped into the wide family of Ursidae, which is itself divided into Ailuropodinae for giant pandas, Tremarctinae for the spectacled bear, and ursinae for all other … [Read more...] about Brown Bear Evolution: 10 Things We Know

  1 The origin story Grizzly Adams was born in Medway, Massachusetts on October 22nd 1812, to the original Adams family (not the TV one!) that included the 2nd US president John Adams and the 6th US president John Quincy Adams. Surprisingly, his real name wasn't Grizzly, but John Boyden Adams. He grew up in a rural household as the 2nd of 7 siblings, and by … [Read more...] about John “Grizzly” Adams: The True Full Story

1 The bear closes in Japan is not normally famous for bears, but 106 years ago, one of the most nightmarish brown bear incidents of all time took place on the northern island of Hokkaido. For 1 month in late 1915, a small Japanese settlement was locked in a bubble away from the outside world where nothing existed apart terrified villagers and a bloodthirsty brown bear … [Read more...] about The Sankebetsu Bear Nightmare Of 1915 (Japan)