Extinct fox was kept as pet by South American hunter-gatherers 1,500 years ago
Archaeologists uncover an ancient human-fox companionship in South America, challenging our notions of early domestication.
Tag: domestication
Why zebras were never domesticated
There's a reason why humans don't ride zebras.
Puppies understand human gestures from an early age with no training unlike wolf pups
Dogs and humans have formed a special bond after more than 14,000 years of co-evolving together.
Algae-farming fish domesticate shrimp to improve their farms
It's the first example of a non-human vertebrate domesticating another animal.
Baby wolves like to play fetch too — what this says about your dog
Wolves may understand human communication cues, which may help us understand how they evolved into dogs.
We have the first genetic evidence of human self-domestication
Our ancestors screened partners for 'niceness' -- and our genomes reflect that.
Grazing animals drove the domestication of grain crops
This might solve a long-standing puzzle about plant domestication.
Viking cats show that domesticated felines have grown bigger in time (as well as a gruesome history)
The Vikings used to skin cats for their pelts.
Monkeys and wolves forge alliance that resembles domestication done by humans
In Ethiopia's grasslands, huge herds of gelada monkeys might be in the process of domesticating wolves.
In a just a few years, scientists could domesticate the delicious ground cherry
They used CRISPR gene editing to take a shortcut around traditional plant domestication that can take up to thousands of ...
Oldest bread found in Jordan predates agriculture by 4,000 years
It took great determination for the first hunter-gathers to set off the agricultural revolution -- but the bread helped.
Man-made: we’ve domesticated our own species
Does this make us pets?
Russian geneticist breeds the first domesticated foxes and I want one
Man's best Russian friend.
Turns out goats and dogs aren’t that different when communicating with humans
There's a lot more going on under those horns than you'd think.
Dogs may have been first domesticated in Nepal and Mongolia
It probably took a bit of convincing for man to turn wolves into dogs through domestication. At least this is ...
Cat domestication traced to Chinese farmers – 5.300 years ago
This is the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt They say it's easy to train a cat ...
Cats recognise their owners’ voices but never evolved to care, questionable study shows
Japanese researchers showed that cats are able to recognize their owners' voices from other voices, but because they domesticated themselves, ...
Horse domestication origins revealed after extensive gene study
Horses are arguably one of the most helpful animals man has ever managed to domesticate. At first they were used ...