The earliest domestic chickens we have ever found lived no earlier than 3670 years ago, suggesting the world’s most common domestic animal has a far shorter history than previously thought. What is ...

New evidence shows humans had domesticated horses as early as the 4th millennium BCE, pushing back the timeline by centuries.

By Will Dunham May 18 (Reuters) - Cotton, the world's most profitable nonfood crop, is used more than any other natural fiber ...

Horses were being ridden, worked, and traded long before anyone thought it possible. New research pushes back the accepted ...

A groundbreaking new study from Cyprus reveals that pigeons were living alongside humans and moving toward domestication nearly 3,400 years ago. This discovery pushes back the earliest direct evidence ...

The origins of domestic cats, and their travels with ancient humans, are as enigmatic as the animals themselves. But now, scientists have found new evidence supporting the idea that the unfathomable ...

Long before horses became the engine of empires, they were part of a messy experiment. That is the picture emerging from new ...

Though dogs are so close genetically to wolves that many taxonomists consider them to be a subspecies, most people wouldn’t let a wolf lick their hand as readily as a Shih Tzu. When animals are ...