Scientists Left Puzzled by an Unexpected Brain Change in Modern Dogs ...

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

Nearly 40,000 years ago, humanity had its best idea to date: transform the age's apex predator into a sociable and loyal ally. Though early humans largely muddled through the first few thousand years ...

Whether it’s your grandpa’s nose, your mother’s eyes, or the chin the entire family share, humans depend on facial features to tell one another apart, to read emotions and intent, and to communicate ...

Biologists at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock analyzed images of urban and rural raccoons and found that city-dwelling raccoons have noticeably shorter snouts, a classic marker of early ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers compared thousands of images of raccoons from iNaturalist, a website where users post images of flora and fauna, based ...

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

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 ...

In Tom Edison’s Shaggy Dog, a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Edison discovers that dogs are intellectually superior beings. They’re so smart, in fact, that the canines found the easiest possible ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. photoDiod/Shutterstock @zeroXhope/X.com (photoDiod/Shutterstock @zeroXhope/X.com) A new study has raccoon lovers wondering whether ...