After centuries of sustained effort, zebras remain evidence that domestication depends less on human ambition than on ...

Dogs have a very special bond with humans. They were the first mammal to be domesticated, and we have fashioned them into many different shapes and sizes to fulfil different roles. Wherever you find ...

Scientists don't know exactly how wolves were domesticated into early dogs, but it's possible that they domesticated themselves by choosing to coexist with humans so that, a new study finds, they ...

Whether you’re on your way to Sidgwick Site for a 9am lecture or walking home from a late-evening supervision, crossing paths ...

There are few things more joyful, if occasionally nerve-wracking, than having a pet in your home. And plenty of people agree.

In 1959, Dmitri Belyaev made his way to Siberia to look for the most polite foxes he could find. A Soviet geneticist, Belyaev was interested in how animal domestication occurs — and in what happens ...

Flowers emit scented chemicals to attract pollinators, but this perfume—and how pollinators interact with the plant—can go ...

Quick Take European hamsters are typically 2-3 times larger than their domesticated relatives, which helps them survive in the wild. European hamsters’ body weight influences their survival and ...

Oct. 15 (UPI) --New research suggests marmoset monkeys self-domesticated, just like humans, adopting physical changes to match their sociability. According to scientists, it's not a coincidence that ...

Domesticated horses are ubiquitous enough in real life and fictional worlds for it to seem like they’ve always just been there, in their “final form,” so to speak. But where and when did we homo ...

(CN) — Long before humans domesticated chickens, they had tamed the much larger and dangerous cassowary bird, according to new research released Monday. "This behavior that we are seeing is coming ...