According to researchers, modern dog genetic lineages must have been established by the Upper Palaeolithic, the final phase ...

Scientists don't know exactly how wolves were domesticated into early dogs, but it's possible that they domesticated themselves by choosing to coexist with humans so that, a new study finds, they ...

According to a study published in Science, researchers have used phytolith analysis and other methods to reveal the continuous evolutionary history of rice from wild to domesticated over an ...

The bond runs deep.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Domesticated horses are ubiquitous enough in real life and fictional worlds for it to seem like they’ve always just been there, in ...

A new paper makes the case that elephants have evolved to become generally social and friendly all on their own, much like humans and bonobos. Reading time 3 minutes A group of scientists is making a ...

Scientists have long sought an indisputable link showing when humans first domesticated dogs, steering a few receptive gray wolves' descendants toward lives as lapdogs. The origins of their "domestic ...