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, ...

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 ...

An urban red fox wanders on top of a brick wall. People who see evidence of “self-domestication” in foxes are confusing it with habituation, experts say. Jakub Rutkiewicz, Shutterstock In a video with ...

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

In 1959, Soviet scientists embarked on an audacious experiment to breed a population of tame foxes, a strain of animals that wouldn’t be aggressive or fearful of people. Scientists painstakingly ...

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 ...