European brown bears are masters of survival: These animals have weathered Pleistocene climate fluctuations and survived the cycles of ice ages and interglacial periods to the present day. Zoologists ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and became smaller and less aggressive. Humans have long shaped the environments in ...

Apennine brown bears have been living alongside humans in central Italy since at least the era of the Roman Empire. This prolonged proximity to people seems to have affected the isolated creatures’ ...

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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.

Lower jaws of fossil brown bears from the Le Régourdou Cave, Dordogne, France, dating back 243,000 years, and from the Postes Cave, Extremadura, Spain, dating back 71,000–104,000 years. The brown bear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Apennine brown bear. Bruno D’Amicis / Molecular Biology and Evolution Brown bears living near villages in central Italy have ...

Bears at a UK zoo have woken up from hibernation. Whipsnade Zoo's four European brown bears Mana, Minnie, Naya and Cinderella were spotted basking in the first of the spring rays having awoken after ...