Long time readers of Dog O’Day may recall a previous article about the experiments in fox domestication. One notable ...

What happens when wild animals are selectively bred for friendliness? In this video, we dive into the decades-long Russian experiment that turned aggressive silver foxes into playful, dog-like ...

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 ...

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, ...

Rapid animal domestication and ecological challenges reveal unexpected insights into human impact on wildlife.

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 ...

Prologue: Why can't a fox be more like a dog? -- A bold idea -- Fire-breathing dragons no more -- Ember's tail -- Dream -- Happy family -- Delicate interactions -- The word and its meaning -- An SOS - ...

New research led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shows the historical origins of farmed fox populations through time and space. The population genetics study provides new insights into ...