In a number of other Psychology Today posts (here and here), I have written about the remarkable silver fox domestication study that my colleague and friend Lyudmila Trut (who has been leading this ...

Foxes can look a lot like domesticated dogs considering they're members of the canine family. They are the only member of the canine family that can adeptly climb trees. Pet foxes can be cute, comical ...

Lyudmila Trut, who has died aged 90, was a Soviet scientist and lead researcher on the silver fox domestication study, one of the most significant biology experiments of the 20th century, compressing ...

This marks my fourth Psychology Today post on a remarkable experiment in evolution that has been underway in Novosibirsk, Russia for the last sixty-one years. Researchers have been, year after year, ...

The Falkland Islands, now famous for its sheep, was once home to just one native mammal: the Falkland Islands "wolf". I crack out “these guys” because we’ve since learned that these strange, tame ...