For thousands of years, brown bears in Italy's Apennine Mountains have lived close to human settlements, and researchers say this proximity has changed them in remarkable ways. A study published ...
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.
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 ...
What happens when humans kill off the boldest, most aggressive members of a wild animal population for thousands of years? According to research on Italian brown bears, you may get something that ...
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 ...
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