A momma bear's tiny cubs hitched a ride on her back as she swam across a Massachusetts reservoir to an island, video shows.

A fisherman captured video on June 25 of a bear swimming across the Quabbin Reservoir to an island with two bear cubs on its ...

A pair of black bear cubs hitched a ride on their mother’s back last week as she swam across the Quabbin Reservoir, experts ...

A fisherman captured video showing a mama bear swimming across a Massachusetts reservoir with two cubs on her back.

A Massachusetts angler captured a rare video of a black bear swimming across the Quabbin Reservoir with two cubs clinging to ...

A pair of fishermen got quite the sight over the weekend after a mama bear was spotted swimming across the Quabbin Reservoir ...

An angler out searching for fish in a Massachusetts reservoir ended up capturing something more unusual -- video of a mother ...

Four towns 'lost' to build Quabbin Reservoir. Lost under the waters of the Quabbin, from the native Nipmuc word meaning “many waters,” are the communities of Enfield, Dana, Greenwich and Prescott.

Usually, bears are seen digging through trash or wandering through backyards this time of year, but video captured this week ...

In this September 2013 handout photo, a dirt road leads to Mount Zion Island, at rear, at the Quabbin Reservoir in Petersham. State officials have a plan to start a colony of venomous timber ...

The Boston Globe Pieces of a house lost to the flooding of the Quabbin Reservoir live on inside of this author’s home Salvaged components of a forgotten home have had a second life in Ware, and ...

The Quabbin project coincided with the construction of Hoover Dam, then known as Boulder Dam, in Nevada. “The residents knew for decades that the reservoir could be built,” Palladino said.