Evolution is often perceived as an incredibly slow, natural process driven by environmental pressures over millennia. That characterization certainly holds true, but humans have also repeatedly ...

Since the Middle Ages, the size of wild and domestic animals has largely been shaped by human selection: domestic animals are increasingly larger; wild animals increasingly smaller. During the 7,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lyudmila Trut with one of her domesticated foxes Lyudmila Trut, who has died aged 90, was a Soviet scientist and lead researcher ...

The peppered moth is an iconic example of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. For centuries peppered moths (Biston betularia) were common in the forests around Manchester, ...

Not every animal is meant to live alongside humans — some species resist domestication by nature, instinct, and evolution.

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 ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

If raccoons are wild animals, why are they so darn cute? If that’s a question you’ve ever asked yourself while looking at a picture of the furry urban dwellers with their beady eyes and tiny paws, you ...