The number of bears roaming the Pyrenees remained stable at a minimum of 22 last year, thanks largely to the continued virility of Pyros, the undisputed daddy of the colony.

Biology - Ecology

May 12, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

At the end of the last ice age, a population of polar bears was stranded by the receding ice on a few islands in southeastern Alaska. Male brown bears swam across to the islands from the Alaskan mainland and ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 14, 2013 4.2 / 5 (5) 0 |

Estonia's thriving brown bear population has spread nationwide after hunters eased up in their traditional territory, an expert in the Baltic state said Friday.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 23, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

A whole-genome analysis suggests that polar bear numbers waxed and waned with climate change, and that the animals may have interbred with brown bears since becoming a distinct species millions of years ago.

Biology - Evolution

Jul 23, 2012 4.4 / 5 (8) 8 |

(Phys.org) -- A new genetic analysis carried out by and international team of scientists has revealed that polar bears and brown bears may have diverged around 600,000 years ago, which is much earlier than ...

Biology - Evolution

Apr 20, 2012 3.3 / 5 (4) 69 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Because brown bears are so reclusive, not to mention dangerous to be around, not a lot is really known about their brain power. This is actually rather odd because bears have the largest brains ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 07, 2012 4.9 / 5 (12) 20 |

Carrying a gun in bear country doesn't mean you're more protected in the event of a bear encounter, according to new research out of Brigham Young University.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 06, 2012 4 / 5 (4) 56

Polar bears' unique characteristics allow them to survive in one of the most extreme environments on Earth, but that survival is now threatened as rising temperatures and melting ice reshape the Arctic landscape. Now it appears ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jul 07, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

An international team of scientists has discovered that the female ancestor of all living polar bears was a brown bear that lived in the vicinity of present-day Britain and Ireland just prior to the peak of ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jul 07, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 5 |

Will polar bears survive in a warmer world? UCLA life scientists present new evidence that their numbers are likely to dwindle.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 24, 2010 3.3 / 5 (7) 16 |

A team of Spanish scientists followed the brown bear population through the mountains of the Cantabrian Cordillera between 1998 and 2007 in order to find out about their hibernation habits, which had been ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 06, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 0

A rare, ancient polar bear fossil discovered in Norway in 2004 is yielding a treasure trove of essential information about the age and evolutionary origins of the species whose future is now seen as synonymous ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 01, 2010 4.8 / 5 (5) 0 |

The population of brown bears (Ursus arctos) in France is now so small that the species might become extinct in the near future. However, there is new hope in the form of new research published October 28 in the open-access, peer-r ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

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The discovery of brown (grizzly) bears feeding on migrating broad whitefish in a stream in Mackenzie Delta region of the Northwest Territories has researchers advising increased care in petroleum extraction and infrastructure ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 22, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0