This marks my fourth Psychology Today post on a remarkable experiment in evolution that has been underway in Novosibirsk, Russia for the last sixty-one years. Researchers have been, year after year, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lyudmila Trut with one of her domesticated foxes Lyudmila Trut, who has died aged 90, was a Soviet scientist and lead researcher ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An urban red fox wanders on top of a brick wall. People who see evidence of "self-domestication" in foxes are confusing it with ...

Domesticated animals play a prominent role in our society, with two-thirds of American families enjoying the companionship of pets and many others relying on animal products for their nutritional ...

In 1959, Soviet scientists embarked on an audacious experiment to breed a population of tame foxes, a strain of animals that wouldn’t be aggressive or fearful of people. Scientists painstakingly ...

Ceiridwen Terrill, associate professor at Concordia University in Portland, Ore., wrote a book about her experience raising a wolf-dog. For thousands of years, dogs have been our companions. After ...

In a video with over one million views on TikTok, a wild fox plays with what appears to be a ball, letting it roll down a hilly slope and chasing after it. The video is tagged #domesticatedfox. "He ...