Researchers found genetic differences that likely resulted from humans killing aggressive bears, leaving docile individuals ...

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

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

The Apennine brown bear, Ursus arctos marsicanus, exists nowhere else on Earth. Genetic evidence shows that this population ...

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 ...

The Apennine brown bear is a small population found only in central Italy, with a long history of closeness to human ...

“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 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 ...

Polar bears are running out of ice and out of time, yet inside their cells something remarkable is happening. As the Arctic ...