Raccoons have faces that perhaps only a mother could love, but their features seem to be changing, biologists report. After combing through nearly 20,000 images of the so-called "trash pandas" ...

The clever, adaptable urban raccoon may be evolving a shorter snout — a key physical trait of pets and other domesticated animals. The new finding describes what a biologist says could be the first ...

Mongolian horses, Arkhangaï, Mongolia. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 28, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by P. Librado at Natural History Museum of ...

It is not farfetched to say that dogs and people were made for each other, although how the partnership between these two vastly different species came about remains an enduring historical mystery. It ...

In the 19th century, Charles Darwin was one of the first to notice something interesting about domesticated animals: different species often developed similar changes when compared to their ancient ...

A recreated image of Scythian horses sacrificed at Berel', Kazakhstan some 2,300 years ago. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 28 April 2017, issue of <i>Science</i>, published by ...