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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

As the Arctic warms and sea ice disappears, polar bears are being pushed into conditions they have never faced before. Their ...

Liverpool’s January spending record raises fresh questions ahead of 2026 windowWith January fast approaching once again, ...