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

The research was based on something called the Neural Crest Domestication Syndrome (NCDS) hypothesis, which describes traits common to domesticated animals: smaller brains, floppy ears, shorter snouts ...

On a wind-battered rock in the Baltic Sea, archaeologists have uncovered a puzzle that cuts to the heart of how dogs first ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population, but the tiny microbes living on and around rice plants may be just as ...

Studying wild rock doves gives us a rare chance to establish how one of science’s model species lives in nature. This may ...

Raccoons have faces that perhaps only a mother could love, but their features seem to be changing, biologists report. After combing through nearly 20,000 images of the so-called “trash pandas” ...

Curaleaf will seek shareholder approval for a proposed domestication to Delaware. The company said Delaware's favorable corporate environment would further its strategic objectives and streamline its ...

"Normally you think of domestication as something that happens at the hands of humans," said Brian Hare, a Duke University evolutionary anthropologist and co-author of a bonobo research review ...

For nearly 60 years, scientists in Siberia have bred silver foxes in an attempt to replay how domestication occurred thousands of years ago. Now, in a first, researchers have compiled the genetic ...

Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication. CBC Kids News contributor Manny explains why researchers are studying the ...