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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...