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 ...

With dexterous childlike hands and cheeky “masks,” raccoons are North America’s ubiquitous backyard bandits. The critters are so comfortable in human environments, in fact, that a new study finds that ...

Researchers compared thousands of images of raccoons from iNaturalist, a website where users post images of flora and fauna, based on location. They found that raccoons photographed in urban areas in ...

The clever, adaptable urban raccoon may be evolving a shorter snout — a key physical trait of pets and other domesticated animals. The new finding describes what a biologist says could be the first ...

The world we live in was built on horseback. Many people today rarely encounter horses, but this is a recent development. Only a few decades ago domestic horses formed the fabric of societies around ...

City-dwelling raccoons are showing early signs of domestication, a new study finds. Using photos uploaded to the citizen science platform iNaturalist, researchers found that raccoons in urban ...

In 2025, a University of Arkansas at Little Rock study found that raccoons from urban environments have begun to show signs of domestication. Rating: True (About this rating?) Context: Researchers ...