It is true that humans domesticated pigeons for centuries, and feral pigeons do largely stay in urban environments because we ...

Humans originally domesticated pigeons to be companions and prized possessions, and now pigeons cannot survive without humans ...

Using genomics, scientists report that grapevines were first domesticated simultaneously in two separate geographic regions shortly after the glaciers retreated around 11,000 years ago.

What nature started, we humans have tinkered with for millennia. The dog, Canis lupus familiaris, was the first animal, and the only large carnivore, to be domesticated. Yet its origins remained a ...

If you puncture the ovary of a wasp called Microplitis demolitor, viruses squirt out in vast quantities, shimmering like ...

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The DNA also revealed gene variations that may have given these horses important characteristics for being domesticated and used by humans, including having a stronger back and demonstrating more ...

Studies conducted in the Patagonia region of Argentina provethat the local population once domesticated foxes, Azernews ...

Croatia is well known as a dog-loving country, but just how long have there been domesticated dogs in Croatia?

Domesticated animals were likely kept for practical reasons, such as food sources, for work or for protection. It may feel natural to assume that the first species to be domesticated were working ...

A team of international researchers, led by Associate Professor Masaki Eda of the Hokkaido University Museum, have discovered that the oldest type of poultry ever domesticated may have been geese. The ...