New research led by the University of Oxford indicates that human domestication of crops can alter the communities of microorganisms that are associated with plants. Intriguingly, independent ...

An October 2025 social media post correctly reported that researchers documented an apparent effort by a troop of chimpanzees in the Congo Basin to domesticate more than 30 penguins. Rating: False ...

Wilderness protected areas get eight billion visitors a year. And that's just on land. Underwater reserves add millions more to the tally. Which, considering these are "protected" areas, seems like an ...

New analyses of bones, teeth, genetics and artifacts suggest it’s time to revise a long-standing hypothesis for how humans domesticated horses. Read from CU expert William Taylor on The Conversation.

Some 12,000 years ago, humans chose to domesticate much of the world that surrounds us. This intervention steered our evolution and the evolution of many plants and animals, transitioning our ...

Dogs showed up between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago, attracted by the smell of cookfires and food scraps. When we started doing agriculture and started storing lots of grain, that attracted rodents, ...

As foxes move from the forest to the city, they show more doglike traits and appear to be naturally self-domesticating in the U.K. — but the same isn’t happening here at home When Kevin Parsons moved ...

It took at least 3000 years to domesticate the tomato. Now two separate teams in Brazil and China have done it all over again in less than three years – only better in some ways, as the redomesticated ...