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

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

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

Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape ...

The domestication of dogs began at least 17,000 years ago, marking the first major interspecies relationship in human history. This profound bond transformed the way humans survived, migrated, and ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the museum’s collection Jack Tamisiea The newly-described early pterosaur ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Have you ever wanted a pet raccoon? Well, here’s a possible sign that dream is slowly approaching: a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Zoology suggests raccoons are getting closer to ...

Pigeons aren’t the problem. Our tendency to rewrite history and blame the vulnerable for adapting is. They may be unaffectionately referred to as “flying rats,” but pigeons are actually very loyal and ...

There is a race happening among skunks, raccoons, coyotes and whitetail deer as to which will out-populate the other in our environment. There are clear leaders, but don’t count any out. Rats and mice ...