While dogs and cats are genetically unrelated, breeding for certain features is making some dog and cat breeds look more and ...

In the case of domestic cats, dogs and many other domesticated species, intentional and unintentional selection by humans ...

In terms of raw power, the gorilla wins every time. But humans fight dirty. Judging by our evolutionary success, humans would ...

Even compared to chimpanzees, our closest relatives, our wounds are slow to recover – but it could be the outcome of us ...

Domestication has made cats and dogs more diverse, but also curiously alike – with serious implications for their health and ...

Our ability to speak shapes our culture, drives our societies, and has created a world built not only of stone and steel but ...

Humans heal skin injuries significantly more slowly than certain primates. Evolutionary changes may explain the trade-off.

In the animal kingdom, injuries are a fact of life. In fact, wounds are so common that most mammals evolved ways to close ...

But when evolutionary biologist Abby Grace Drake and her colleagues scanned 1,810 skulls of cats, dogs and their wild relatives, they found something strange. Despite their distant histories, many ...

Scientists create rice pangenome from 144 varieties, aiding in developing climate-resilient rice cultivars with improved ...

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous ...