Medicine & TechnologyA study finds that escaped American minks regained almost full ancestral brain size, challenging the permanence of domestication-induced brain changes. Continue reading to learn more.
An international collaboration of archaeologists and geneticists examined the remains of a 1,600-year-old sheep mummy from Chehrābād in Zanjian Province, revealing important details about ancient Iran as well as the effect of natural mummification processes.
In science, there is a term for the notion that breeding out aggression in animals affects their evolution - "domestication syndrome" - and might explain some of the marmoset monkeys' physical traits.
The long relationship between humans and dogs has just been pushed back by tens of thousands of years, thanks to a small piece of rib bone found during an expedition to the far northern reaches of Siberia. And the genetics show that dogs split from wolves much earlier than we once believed.