About 90 percent of a brown bear’s diet consists of acorns, grasses and other plants. When plants are thin on the ground in winter due to heavy snow, bears hibernate by slowing down their ...

Bones and teeth discovered in a Highland cave show a fish-heavy diet eaten by the animals which suggests they were polar bears - with brown bears’ diet mostly meat and plant-based. The ...

Bones and teeth discovered in a Highland cave in Scotland show a fish-heavy diet eaten by the animals previously identified as brown bears. The University of Aberdeen worked with National Museums ...

The brown bear is characterized by a distinctive hump on the shoulders, a slightly dished profile to the face, and long straight claws on the front paws used for digging. Weight varies with the season ...

A symbol of northern wildernesses, Grizzly Bears (Ursus arctos), also known as brown bears due to their coats, are powerful, ...

Polar bears once roamed Scotland during the last Ice Age, new analysis of ancient bones and fossils has suggested. Research by academics at Aberdeen and Edinburgh unis found evidence of the ...

Polar bears once roamed Scotland during the last Ice Age, new analysis of ancient bones and fossils has suggested. Research by academics at Aberdeen and Edinburgh unis found evidence of the species in ...

Analysis of samples uncovered evidence of fish in the diet of animals that, until now, had been identified as brown bears. Working with University of Edinburgh Master's student Holland Taekema ...