Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with ...

While bear attacks seem to have become a significant problem in Japan—with the country going as far as deploying the army —new research reveals that an Italian bear species has evolved to be less ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and became ...

Every fall and winter, headlines are filled with stories about bears—attacks on humans, raids on garbage cans, and threats to ...

In a remote corner of Southeast Greenland, a small, isolated group of polar bears is doing something scientists once thought ...

Bears look like textbook mammals, but hidden in their evolutionary history are two dramatic departures from the standard blueprint of growth and adaptation. For the first time, scientists have ...

New genetic research suggests centuries of human persecution may have selected for calmer behavior in Italy's rare Apennine ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and ...

“We found some variants that may have been selected in the last ~70,000 years (i.e. they were not in the fossil polar bears),” study co-author and University of Copenhagen evolutionary biologist ...

The dental development of modern bears does not follow the typical pattern seen in most mammals. The reason lies millions of years ago in the history of bear evolution. SNSB zoologists have identified ...

The cave bear, Ursus spelaeus, was a prominent member of the Pleistocene megafauna in Europe, whose evolutionary history and ecological dynamics continue to captivate palaeontologists and evolutionary ...