Maybe dogs didn't need us at all to domesticate themselves
They may have been drawn to the discarded remains from ancient human meals, and a new model shows tame wolves could have ...
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How Can the Brain Overcome Fear? New Study of Mice Offers Clues to PTSD and Anxiety Treatment
Researchers identified two brain areas in mice that helped the animals learn to suppress their instinctive fears of predators ...
Most animals have their own version of tree rings – here’s how we biologists use them to help species thrive
Similarly, most living things produce records of their own existence in layered body tissues – often in the form of daily or ...
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Boosting evolution: How humans unintentionally altered the skulls of pigs
Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs. This is likely down to new breeding practices ...
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How Are Animals Paired at the National Zoo?
Kate Rodriguez-Clark is an animal matchmaking guru. Among her responsibilities as a population ecologist for the Smithsonian, ...
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Protecting the next generation of whales
Benefits that whales bring extend far beyond the ocean – they help us, humans, too. Coastal communities around the world rely ...