Domestication has made cats and dogs more diverse, but also curiously alike – with serious implications for their health and ...

Through intensive breeding, humans have pushed breeds such as pug dogs and Persian cats to evolve with very similar skulls and “smushed” faces, so they’re more similar to each other than they are to ...

Their ‘smushed’ faces and large, wide-set eyes have made them popular choices for pet owners. But flat-faced dogs and cats have been bred to such extremes that they now look more like each ...

"Persian cats and pug and Pekingese dogs all have skull shapes that are very similar to each other, with flat and short faces, and their muzzles and palettes are tilted up in the same way," said ...

Domestication has made cats and dogs more diverse ... In simple terms, divergence is where two organisms that share a common ancestry become increasingly different over time, while convergence ...