A raccoon dog in Miyagi prefecture, Japan. (Atsushi Tomura/Getty Images) The raccoon dog did it: That was the explosive takeaway of a genomic analysis conducted in March by a trio of scientists who ...

The research was based on something called the Neural Crest Domestication Syndrome (NCDS) hypothesis, which describes traits ...

Have you ever wondered what it would like if a raccoon and a dog were mixed? Well you might want to take a trip to Seoul, Korea, where they have — wait for it — raccoon dogs! Have you ever heard of ...

Raccoons are an established part of suburban wildlife. They can live in a sewer drain, have no natural predators and get nightly handouts via outdoor pet food bowls and bird feeders. I get many ...

The raccoon dog did it: That was the explosive takeaway of a genomic analysis conducted in March by a trio of scientists who had scrutinized data from a market in Wuhan, China, where the pandemic was ...