The Fox Experiment That Changed Everything In 1959, Soviet geneticist Dmitry Belyaev began selectively breeding silver foxes in Siberia for one trait alone: tolerance of humans. Within ten generations ...

Reports have emerged regarding the birth of hybrid offspring after brown bears and Asian black bears were kept together in ...

The bright colors of butterfly wings, the sweet aromas of flowers, and the euphonious melodies of songbirds all evolved as signals that help individuals propagate, yet humans also find these very same ...

An ad hoc committee appointed by the National Academies to explore heritable genetic modifications of food animals. This committee will address methods for heritable genetic modifications and identify ...

There are few things more joyful, if occasionally nerve-wracking, than having a pet in your home. And plenty of people agree. According to the American Pet Products Association, around 94 million ...

Cloning promises genetic copies, but a growing body of research across dogs, mice, cattle, and primates shows that clones begin diverging from their donors almost immediately. Thousands of unique ...