There are few things more joyful, if occasionally nerve-wracking, than having a pet in your home. And plenty of people agree.

A large-scale population genomic study has shed new light on the evolutionary and domestication history of the button ...

Led by Prof. ZHAO Ruilin from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, researchers showed how ...

Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape ...

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"The presentations of the second edition of the Harlan Symposium, held September 14-18, 2008, on the campus of the University of California, Davis ..."--Foreword. The local origins of domestication / ...

Scientists have discovered that dogs may be entering a new wave of domestication, as humans now seek to have companions that are friendlier and calmer. A few decades ago, dogs were seen as animals ...

This skull once belonged to somebody’s pet, over 33,000 years ago. It’s one of the earliest known examples of the domestication of dogs — and it might actually mean modern dogs aren’t all related to ...