Raccoons that live in cities near humans are showing physical changes that are similar to the domestication of cats and dogs, researchers said. Photo by Edwin Butter/Adobe Stock/HealthDay News That ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers compared thousands of images of raccoons from iNaturalist, a website where users post images of flora and fauna, based ...

A newly published study from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock suggests that North American raccoons may be showing early signs of domestication. Researchers compared urban raccoons with their ...

Raccoons living in America’s cities may be showing subtle physical changes that suggest the earliest stages of what scientists call “domestication syndrome,” but a Kansas State University wildlife ...

Raccoons have faces that perhaps only a mother could love, but their features seem to be changing, biologists report. After combing through nearly 20,000 images of the so-called "trash pandas" ...

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 ...

The days of trash-talking raccoons may be coming to an end. A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Zoology found that city-dwelling raccoons are showing early signs of domestication — and ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A study led by Arkansas researchers recently discovered that city raccoons are showing physical traits consistent with signs of domestication. The study, titled “Tracking ...

A raccoon peers out from a tree. New research suggests urban raccoons in the United States have shorter snouts than rural raccoons do, a sign of potential domestication. Laura M via Flickr under CC BY ...