Are bears getting soft on us? After centuries of living in close proximity with people, a population of brown bears has evolved to become unusually calm for a species famous for its mightiness and ...

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 ...

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 ...