Across human history, no single animal has had a deeper impact on human societies than the horse. But when and how people domesticated horses has been an ongoing scientific mystery. As they spread, ...

In the 19th century, Charles Darwin was one of the first to notice something interesting about domesticated animals: different species often developed similar changes when compared to their ancient ...

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 ...

The ancient peoples of Latin America did us all a tremendous favor by saving avocados from extinction and gradually making them tastier over thousands of years of domestication. (Credit: Markus via ...

Wild elephants are one of the few known species to show signs of self-domestication. The phenomenon has only previously been documented in humans and bonobos, a closely related primate. Humans have ...

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 ...

In 2025, a University of Arkansas at Little Rock study found that raccoons from urban environments have begun to show signs of domestication. Rating: True (About this rating?) Context: Researchers ...

I recently read an encyclopedic new book by Drs. Friederike Range and Sarah Marshall-Pescini titled Wolves and Dogs between Myth and Science. I was extremely impressed by their detailed discussions ...