Cave bears are now extinct. Shutterstock/Liliya Butenko February 26, 2021 We sequenced the cave bear genome using a 360,000-year-old ear bone and had to rewrite their evolutionary history Axel Barlow, Nottingham Trent University and Johanna L.A. Paijmans, University of Leicester This is the oldest genome recovered from a non-permafrost environment.
The grizzly, or brown, bear in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is posed to lose protections under the Endangered Species Act. Jim Peaco, Yellowstone National Park June 21, 2016 Of bears and biases: scientific judgment and the fate of Yellowstone’s grizzlies Jeremy T. Bruskotter, The Ohio State University; John A Vucetich, Michigan Technological University, and Robyn S. Wilson, The Ohio State University The grizzly bear of Yellowstone is expected to be delisted from the Endangered Species Act. But a survey of grizzly bear researchers finds flaws in how wildlife experts evaluate scientific data.
Nicram Sabod/Shutterstock April 19, 2016 Shakespeare’s competition: the grisly world of British bear-baiting Hannah O'Regan, University of Nottingham Thespians of old playing the Globe Theatre would have walked past the Bankside bear-baiting ring on their way in.
March 19, 2013 Bears closer relatives than previously thought University of California, Santa Cruz Polar bears and brown bears, species known to produce fertile hybrids, have much more in common genetically than previously…