Scientists have never been certain about how exactly wolves evolved into domesticated dogs, but a new study has just advanced ...

Scientists discovered ancient wolves on a tiny Baltic island where they could only have been brought by humans, suggesting an ...

Though dogs are so close genetically to wolves that many taxonomists consider them to be a subspecies, most people wouldn’t let a wolf lick their hand as readily as a Shih Tzu. When animals are ...

Last fall, a study of raccoons found that these city-dwelling trash pandas are beginning to look different than their rural ...

It took humans several millennia to turn feral wolves into man’s best friend. But in just 60 years, scientists did the same with foxes. Because of this, researchers can now see, for the first time, ...

A unique confluence of archeology, molecular genetics and serendipity guided a collaboration of Mexican and Penn State researchers to a deeper understanding of how modern corn was domesticated from ...

A new University of Barcelona study reveals the first empirical genetic evidence of human self-domestication, a hypothesis that humans have evolved to be friendlier and more cooperative by selecting ...

"Normally you think of domestication as something that happens at the hands of humans," said Brian Hare, a Duke University evolutionary anthropologist and co-author of a bonobo research review ...

In 1959, Lyudmila Trut rode trains through Siberia to visit fox farms. She wasn’t looking for furs. She needed a farm to host an audacious experiment dreamed up by geneticist Dmitry Belyaev: to create ...