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 ...

Videos of friendly, gentle foxes approaching humans, seemingly wanting to play, are going viral on TikTok. But just because a species is sociable doesn't necessarily make it domesticated. An urban red ...

A new study overturns previous findings that domestic cats originated thousands of years earlier. An African wildcat (Felis lybica) rests on a rock in Kruger National Park, South Africa. So far, ...

Anna Schecter is the senior coordinating producer for CBS News and Stations' Crime and Public Safety Unit, based in New York. Almost 5.4 million Americans have reported being victims of domestic ...

If raccoons are wild animals, why are they so darn cute? If that’s a question you’ve ever asked yourself while looking at a picture of the furry urban dwellers with their beady eyes and tiny paws, you ...

Domestic cats were introduced to Europe from North Africa It occurred 2,000 years ago in early imperial Roman times Cats may have arrived as mice hunters on grain ships Nov 27 (Reuters) - Whether they ...

The cats were likely following migrating humans, researchers said. Domesticated cats may have arrived in the West much later than previously thought, according to new research published on Thursday.

If you’ve ever caught a raccoon digging through your neighbor’s garbage can at night, you may have been witnessing evolution in action. A new study in the online journal Frontiers in Zoology suggests ...

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A study led by Arkansas researchers recently discovered that city raccoons are showing physical traits consistent with signs of domestication. The study, titled “Tracking ...

Raccoons are developing pet-like features, with Scientific American citing a peer-reviewed study that found urban raccoons have shorter snouts than rural ones — an early hallmark of domestication. “If ...

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 ...