This new study has animal lovers in a tizzy. According to this study, raccoons are beginning to show signs of the domestication process. Thus, meaning that one day soon, these trash pandas could be an ...

A white raccoon has been popping up across social feeds, and it stops people mid-scroll for a reason. Its fur looks almost unreal, its eyes bright and pale, the kind of animal you do a double take on ...

Dogs showed up between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago, attracted by the smell of cookfires and food scraps. When we started doing agriculture and started storing lots of grain, that attracted rodents, ...

What does it mean to be a wild animal in a world dominated by humans? A recent study found that city-dwelling raccoons’ snouts are getting shorter—a sign of domestication. Another study on dark-eyed ...

With dexterous childlike hands and cheeky “masks,” raccoons are North America’s ubiquitous backyard bandits. The critters are so comfortable in human environments, in fact, that a new study finds that ...

If raccoons are wild animals, why are they so darn cute? If that’s a question you’ve ever asked yourself while looking at a picture of the furry urban dwellers with their beady eyes and tiny paws, you ...