Are bears getting soft on us? After centuries of living in close proximity with people, a population of brown bears has evolved to become unusually calm for a species famous for its mightiness and ...

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 ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and became smaller and less aggressive.

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Look at the timeline above. If it's right then polar bears are a very recently derived lineage out of the genetic background of brown bears. But there's a problem. The nuclear DNA, which is most of ...

When the strange and unnatural case of Paddington Bear came to my attention, I saw it as a troubling next step in the long, entangled history of humans and animals. Long had humankind domesticated ...

Today, polar bears live only on the northernmost stretches of ice and snow, but their roots may lie farther south -- in an area that is now Ireland. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

For generations, brown bears in central Italy have adjusted their behavior to survive in a landscape increasingly dominated by humans. Now, an international team of researchers led by the University ...