Researchers found pigs consumed cooked foods and harbored human parasites, indicating close relationships with humans.

“Wild boars were probably attracted to human settlements as people started settling down and began growing their own food,” ...

Pigs have long been known, sometimes celebrated, as among the most intelligent of farm animals. Now, a new Dartmouth-led study provides evidence that pigs were first domesticated from wild boars in ...

“Leveraging partnerships and expertise from scientists and institutions at home and abroad, this award will produce key scientific research on animal domestication and the human story,” Taylor noted, ...

AI is shedding new light on the 12,000-year conversation between cats and their humans, suggesting that house cats wield a ...

“Heat stress coping behaviors is what we see when cattle are adapting to warmer temperatures,” he says. “Whenever we get hot, ...

In animal domestication, this process is called a "commensal pathway," where the animal is attracted to human settlements rather than humans trying to actively recruit the animals.

During their visit to Khizi district, Vice-President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, founder and head of IDEA Public Union ...

A pet zebra in Tennessee remains missing after it escaped from its new owners, was filmed trotting through a neighborhood and caused "havoc" on an interstate before running into a wooded area.

A zebra remains on the run in Rutherford County. The pet escaped Saturday and was last seen galloping on I-24.

Comparative genomics revealed genetic differences between wild and domestic animals, highlighting traits influenced by human selection.