Two studies of ancient felines find that cats were likely domesticated in Egypt or other regions in North Africa — and moved ...

When humans still lived primarily in hunter-gatherer societies, dogs were among the first domesticated animals. And as the ...

Other animals, too, saw similar phenotype changes through the process of domestication. When wild boars were first domesticated in areas of both modern Turkey and China, the farmers who bred them ...

But what's the actual evidence supporting the Kurgan hypothesis for the first horse domestication? Many of the most important clues come from the bones and teeth of ancient animals, via a ...

Domesticating horses had a huge impact on human society—new science rewrites where and when it first happened Across human history, no single animal has had a deeper impact on human societies than the ...

1. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? That’s easy: eggs. Microfossil embryos in primitive eggs from southern China are about 600 million years old. 2. The chicken, however, now the world’s most ...

But what’s the actual evidence supporting the Kurgan hypothesis for the first horse domestication? Many of the most important clues come from the bones and teeth of ancient animals, via a ...

But where and when these animals first became intertwined with humans has been a mystery. Now, researchers have used the genomes of over 200 donkeys to trace their domestication back to a single ...

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 ...

But what’s the actual evidence supporting the Kurgan hypothesis for the first horse domestication? Many of the most important clues come from the bones and teeth of ancient animals, via a ...

“It is certainly arguable that dogs were first domesticated in Asia,” says ... inform what we know about our connection with other animals such as sheep — their mythological link with ...

First Anthony and his colleagues suggested ... of domestic horses but one that has never been managed as a domestic animal in recorded history. Recent archaeological and genetic insights into ...