A new study suggests dogs began to diversify about 11,000 years earlier than we thought. Plus, a long-running experiment to ...

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

The domestic cat is one of the smallest members of the family Felidae — the group that includes lions, tigers, jaguars and cougars. It is also the only member of that family that has been domesticated ...

Understanding the deep history of agriculture Thakar hopes that her research will help people appreciate the long and complex process of plant domestication. "The vast majority of food consumed today ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An African wildcat (Felis lybica) rests on a rock in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Richard Flack, Nature Picture Library ...

Whether they are a Siamese, Persian, Maine Coon, or Domestic Shorthair, there are hundreds of millions of cats living with people around the world. But despite their popularity as pets, the history of ...

Domesticating horses had a huge impact on human society—new science rewrites where and when it first happened Across human history, no single animal has had a deeper impact on human societies than the ...

The world we live in was built on horseback. Many people today rarely encounter horses, but this is a recent development. Only a few decades ago domestic horses formed the fabric of societies around ...

"The first modern scholarly synthesis of animal domestication Across the globe and at different times in the past millennia, the evolutionary history of domesticated animals has been greatly affected ...