It took thousands of years to develop the world’s extraordinary range of domesticated farm animals – an estimated 8,800 ...

A new survey from the RSPCA shows that the British public are turned off by the health problems that can come with flat-faced ...

Obesity is on the rise not just in humans but in dogs, whose history of selective breeding makes them an ideal species for ...

We aren’t the only species on this planet that have domesticated another species. There is one kind of ancient ant that herds and cares for insect aphids in order to milk them of honeydew sugar. But ...

Researchers from MLU analyzed 3D scans of 135 pig skulls and found significant shape changes over just 100 years. Selective breeding and diet shifts led to shorter snouts and flatter skulls, even ...

Second, the study allowed researchers to quantify genetic risk for obesity in individual dogs — and the level of effort ...