Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory ...

A new study finds urban raccoons have snouts 3.56% shorter than rural ones, supporting early domestication traits.

Videos of friendly, gentle foxes approaching humans, seemingly wanting to play, are going viral on TikTok. But just because a ...

Now, a new DNA analysis of a sprawling set of ancient feline remains reveal that the precursors to modern housecats ...

Superficially, gene flow between dingoes and European dogs sounds like a negative outcome. Our research, however, suggests ...

An unrelated species of small cat lived in human settlements thousands of years before domestic cats, say scientists.

Many domestic animals can prosper in the wild despite having adapted to thousands of years in captivity. This phenomenon offers an interesting window into the process of adaptation to natural ...

A domestic elk that escaped from an eastern Idaho domestic elk facility and was killed by a hunter outside of the facility’s ...