A new study has shown that Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication. The University of Arkansas found that urban ...

On a wind-battered rock in the Baltic Sea, archaeologists have uncovered a puzzle that cuts to the heart of how dogs first ...

The research was based on something called the Neural Crest Domestication Syndrome (NCDS) hypothesis, which describes traits ...

Perhaps also surprising, the remains of cats and artistic depictions of them have been observed in various archaeological sites throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia for over 10,000 years, indicating ...

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were wild cats.

New evidence of wolves and humans living together on Swedish island points to likely prehistoric domestication ...

Ancient wolves found on a human-occupied Baltic island reveal unexpected and complex forms of prehistoric human-animal interaction. Researchers have uncovered wolf remains dating back thousands of ...

Raccoons have faces that perhaps only a mother could love, but their features seem to be changing, biologists report. After combing through nearly 20,000 images of the so-called “trash pandas” ...

Central Asia’s vast grasslands hosted a prehistoric revolution in transportation, communication and warfare, thanks to the humble horse. Remains from Kazakhstan’s more than 5,000-year-old Botai ...

"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 ...