Animal trackers using traditional skills helped to find and identify fossil tracks on the coast of South Africa.

The African wildcat was first tamed in ancient Egypt some 4,000 years ago, marking the beginning of cat domestication. Cats ...

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

The animals were likely gifted to some ... and its ancestors probably came from Kazakhstan. Today's domestic cats are descended from the African, or Near Eastern, wildcat. Rute Martins of Leoa's ...

Many owners end up wondering how to maximise the chances of fostering a positive relationship between their cat and other animals – or if they should get them a “friend” at all. However ...

The African wildcat is more than ... this wild feline shaped the history of human-animal relationships in this fascinating look at the cat that domesticated us! Prince Frederik dies from rare ...

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The behavior of domesticated animals is similar to that of juvenile animals ... We are not the same folks who marched out of Africa. Our genes have coevolved with our inventions. In the past 10,000 ...

KAMPALA, Uganda—A fast-spreading mystery illness linked to bats has killed scores of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with nearly half dying within 48 hours of showing symptoms, the ...

King Mohammed VI on Thursday urged Moroccans "to refrain from performing the rite of sacrifice" during Eid al-Adha this year. The country is in its seventh consecutive year of drought, which has ...