Are bears getting soft on us? After centuries of living in close proximity with people, a population of brown bears has ...

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

Summary: Researchers found that Italian brown bears living near humans evolved unique genetic and behavioral traits. The ...

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

The warming of the Arctic is transforming not only its ice but also the genetics of its inhabitants. According to a study ...

“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 ...

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

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. Sometime within the last 50,000 years, suggests a ...