The research comes as communities in Italy and around Europe struggle with the rebound of bear populations due to ...

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A California homeowner can't bear his uninvited houseguest anymore. Altedena resident Kenneth Johnson is threatening to sue ...

Italian brown bears have some remarkable characteristics. Learn more about these bears and how several factors made them docile.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is still on the lookout for a specific bear that has taken up residence in an ...

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

The most complete bear ever recovered from Siberia’s frozen ground looks less like a fossil and more like a sleeping animal ...

Brown bears are not pets. Yet, a small bear population in the Apennines has shown unusually gentle behavior toward humans for centuries. Now, a genome study reveals: This change is not just ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages ...

A sun bear at Hertfordshire Zoo has undergone a rare veterinary procedure, crucial for the future of her species. Kyra, a key part of a European conservation breeding programme, had struggled to ...