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 ...

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

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

Modern species of bears living near humans for extended periods show evidence of genetic changes making them less aggressive ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...