Raccoons living in America’s cities may be showing early indications of what scientists call “domestication syndrome.” ...

City-dwelling raccoons are physically changing as they adapt to human environments. They are, however, still wild animals.

Evolutionary biologist Pamela Yeh and animal domestication expert Raffaela Lesch join Host Flora Lichtman to discuss how ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A domesticated animal is one that has been bred and adapted ...

A large-scale population genomic study has shed new light on the evolutionary and domestication history of the button ...