The comment section confirms it. People aren't shocked so much as exposed. Late-night snackers feel seen. Anyone who's ever ...

Pets and other domesticated animals could provide new clues into the emergence of infections that can spread between animals and humans. The study showed that the number of parasites and pathogens ...

There are five luscious Siberian cupcakes residing near Santa Ysabel on the way to Palomar Mountain. What are Siberian cupcakes? They are domesticated Russian foxes and this author was lucky enough to ...

Long before humans domesticated other animals, we may have domesticated ourselves. Over many generations, some scientists propose, humans selected among themselves for tameness. This process resulted ...

The standard story told about domesticating wild animals goes something like this: humans selected individuals with a desired trait—docility, for example—and bred those animals together to produce ...

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 ...

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, ...

Dogs have been evolving as human companions for at least about 14,000 years. Cats have lived with us for 12,000. But if you want something a little more cutting edge–and you’re willing to pay up– a ...

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 ...

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The domesticated chili pepper is the most widely grown spice crop in the world. A team of researchers at the University of California Davis has discovered the origin of that pepper. Researchers ...