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

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A domesticated animal is one that has been bred and adapted ...

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 ...

Domesticating horses had a huge impact on human society—new science rewrites where and when it first happened Across human history, no single animal has had a deeper impact on human societies than the ...

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 ...

Wild elephants play, help sick members of their species and babysit each other's young, suggesting they domesticated themselves. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Many domestic animals can prosper in the wild despite having adapted to thousands of years in captivity. This phenomenon offers an interesting window into the process of adaptation to natural ...

Despite legislative testimony saying it was unlikely to happen, some of Idaho's domestic elk farms have proven to be porous with multiple examples of wild animals getting into the high-fenced ...