Ancient wolves may have self-domesticated by staying near humans for food scraps, gradually evolving into early dogs.

Here are two of the smallest. A domesticated animal is one that has been bred and adapted to live in close association with ...

Ancient peoples of Latin America saved avocados from extinction by cultivating them after megafauna went extinct, researchers ...

Researchers used mathematical models to show wolves could have turned into dogs by scavenging near human settlements over 15,000 years.

When humans still lived primarily in hunter-gatherer societies, dogs were among the first domesticated animals. And as the millennia passed, the relationship between man and dog has remained ...

A team of anthropologists and evolutionary biologists affiliated with several academic institutions in the U.S., working with ...

While the more recent period likely saw humans selectively breeding for tamer wolves, the domestication process of the older period has been hotly debated. Researchers in the U.S. have uncovered ...

Avocados are true superfoods: dense, buttery scoops of vitamins, fat and fiber, all in a hand-size package. We worked for a long time to make them this way. According to a paper published Monday in ...

The Amsterdam show features an eclectic mix of wool garments, life-size sheep replicas and philosophical musings about the interconnectedness of the two species ...

but it's possible that they domesticated themselves by choosing to coexist with humans so that, a new study finds, they could be fed consistently. Then, these snackish canines likely selected ...