Bones from the turn of the Holocene indicate that humans were feeding canines—including wolves and coyotes—fish over 10,000 years ago, Reading time 3 minutes Who let the dogs out? It remains unclear, ...

Between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago, people in Alaska kept reinventing dogs with mixed results. The dogs that share our homes today are the descendants of a single group of wolves that lived in Siberia ...

In a remote cave in the Gard region of southern France, a team of spelunkers made an astonishing discovery—a 16,000-year-old dog skeleton. This rare find not only offers a glimpse into the early ...

Not so long ago, dogs were valued primarily for the jobs they performed. They hunted, herded livestock, and guarded property, which required them to have an active prey drive, boundless energy, and a ...

Preamble to the dog's journey through time -- Immediate ancestry -- Evidence of dog domestication and its timing : morphological and contextual indications -- Domestication of dogs and other organisms ...

All the pups we love—from chihuahuas to great danes—are descendants of the mighty gray wolf. But how did we end up with so many breeds? The story that’s often told is that dog diversity really took ...

The skull of a dog and the 3D model of the brain in it based on high-resolution CT-scanning. A recent study by László Zsolt Garamszegi from the Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological ...

The facial structure of a dog has changed as they have become domesticated, according to new research. Researchers claim domesticated dogs have evolved facial muscles that can twitch at a faster rate ...