For thousands of years, dogs have been man’s best friend. When humans still lived primarily in hunter-gatherer societies, dogs were among the first domesticated animals. And as the millennia ...

This story appears in the March 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. "Hello! How are you doing?" Lyudmila Trut says, reaching down to unlatch the door of a wire cage labeled "Mavrik.

The chickens that saved Western civilization were discovered, according to legend, by the side of a road in Greece in the first decade of the fifth century B.C. The Athenian general Themistocles ...

It’s no secret that we love our animal friends. Research led by the Pet Food Manufacturers' Association shows that 62% of UK households owned some kind of pet in 2022. Animals have played an ...