When looking at the cat remains that were thought to have arrived to the West about 6,000 years ago, the researchers realized they were looking at European wild cats, not domesticated cats, which ...

That resourceful "trash panda" digging through your garbage may be more than just a nuisance—it could be a living example of ...

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Now, a new DNA analysis of a sprawling set of ancient feline remains reveal that the precursors to modern housecats ...

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People liked dogs so much they invented them not once, but twice. A genetic scan of ancient dogs suggests that humans domesticated pooches separately — once in Europe, and once in East Asia, ...

It is often argued that taming wildlife and keeping them in captivity was our most consequential accomplishment because these animals provided a steady and secure source of critically important ...

The domestication of dogs by humans was so inevitable, it may have happened more than once, according to a new study. In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Science, a team of international ...

Domestic animals’ cuteness and humans’ relatively flat faces may be the work of a gene that controls some important developmental cells, a study of lab-grown human cells suggests. Some scientists are ...

Every dog has its day, and scientists are trying to figure out when that first day happened. At some point in ancient history humans developed close relationships with four-legged creatures that would ...