Are bears getting soft on us? After centuries of living in close proximity with people, a population of brown bears has ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

On Christmas Day the Spurs face a dominant Oklahoma City Thunder squad they have defeated twice in the past two weeks. Does ...

In this video, we explore the historical evolution of Barcelona's urban landscape, covering key developments from its ancient structures to modern expansions. Timeline: 00:00 Intro 01:49 A series of ...

Polar bears are changing at a genetic level in response to climate change. This is what it means for the rest of the Arctic.

One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The middle ear of mammals, with an eardrum and several small bones, allows us to ...

The skull had the brow of a descendant but the face of an ancestor. When researchers finished reconstructing the DAN5/P1 cranium from Ethiopia’s Afar region, dated to between 1.6 and 1.5 million years ...

The world’s polar bear population is projected to decline by two-thirds by 2050. A new study from the University of East Anglia suggests that polar bears are undergoing rapid genetic changes, and ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...