One of the first animals domesticated by humans is the dog. Researchers believe that the first domestic dogs acted as hunting companions and guard dogs for ancient peoples. However, this has only ...

Domesticated animals were likely kept for practical reasons ... Paintings and carvings found by archaeologists in ancient campsites and tombs also indirectly show that dogs may have been kept ...

Humans have been turning wild animals into pets for thousands of years. Pets—animals kept for companionship, not for food or ...

Sharks? Maybe not. But sea battles, semi-aquatic creatures and plenty of other eye-popping spectacles were part of the ...

These powerful animals could single-hoofedly spell the ... Contrary to prevailing theories that suggest horses were domesticated in a single region, such as the Eurasian steppe, the research ...

Geneticists have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs -- the animals that were the focus ... Adorned as paintings on many a cave wall, their domestication to create cattle gave us a harnessed ...