The shorter faces of these city-dwelling trash bandits offer a telltale sign of domestication and line up with a leading ...

City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals ...

The skunk did not appear injured or ill, but was acting “unusually friendly,” officials said. An unusual lack of fear is a ...

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. The ...

Initially established in Everglades National Park in the early 1980s, Burmese pythons quickly put a stranglehold on Florida's ...

A study led by University of Arkansas at Little Rock researchers discovered that city raccoons are showing physical traits consistent with signs of domestication.

I’m a bit of a science geek. I enjoy learning about new scientific discoveries involving the universe, our world and how we, as a species, interact with other species around us, specifically flora ...

Cold temperatures in Florida usually mean one unusual thing will happen: frozen, falling iguanas. A recent cold snap has ...

Raccoons across US cities are showing physical signs of domestication. SF's masked bandits may be following the same ...

Frigid temperatures have made their to Florida. Here's how the cold weather impacts the invasive Burmese python.