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 ...

After centuries of sustained effort, zebras remain evidence that domestication depends less on human ambition than on evolutionary compatibility. Human history is often framed as a steady expansion of ...

Study finds zebras’ intense stress response and risk of capture myopathy may explain why they were never domesticated.

Dogs near Ukraine’s front lines are becoming more wolf-like as war filters survival traits, revealing rapid natural selection in action.

"The first modern scholarly synthesis of animal domestication Across the globe and at different times in the past millennia, the evolutionary history of domesticated animals has been greatly affected ...

New analyses of bones, teeth, genetics and artifacts suggest it's time to revise a long-standing hypothesis for how humans domesticated horses. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Dr. Sarah Bexell of the Institute for Human-Animal Connection (IHAC) at the University of Denver recently sent me a very interesting email. 1 She wrote, "A student, Stephanie, asked if there are cases ...

It is not farfetched to say that dogs and people were made for each other, although how the partnership between these two vastly different species came about remains an enduring historical mystery. It ...