Brown bears have become less aggressive after regular interaction with humans over hundreds of years, according to new research. An isolated population of the mammals living in a region of Italy with ...

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.

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