Polar bears are running out of ice and out of time, yet inside their cells something remarkable is happening. As the Arctic warms and traditional hunting grounds vanish, researchers are finding that ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...