Some experts believe our ancestors in the Middle East and elsewhere were naturally drawn to small, furry wolf pups and seized them as novelties. Others suggest they were raised as a source of meat in ...

Dogs have been shaping—and being shaped by—humans for about 15,000 years, evolving from early partners of hunter-gatherers ...

We call them "man's best friend," and the evidence supports it. Dogs have been found buried alongside humans in graves dating ...

Dogs have lived beside people for thousands of years, but modern breeds tell only the newest part of that history. Today, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers are using the oldest known dog genes to uncover insights into the long-standing relationship between humans and dogs, suggesting these animals have been companions for ...

Dogs evolved from a handful of wolves domesticated in east Asia about 15,000 years ago, a new genetic analysis reveals. A team led by Peter Savolainen at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm ...

The oldest dog genomes on record all come from a population that lived alongside Ice Age hunter-gatherers across Europe and the Middle East. The remains, from the United Kingdom, Switzerland and ...

In the largest study of canid remains to date, new genetic techniques allowed two thirds of analysed remains to be classified as dogs or wolves. The oldest dog identified (14,200 years old) is already ...

While I found the idea distasteful, I was intrigued by Brian’s suggestion that the consumption of human shit may have played a role in the evolution of man’s best friend. As soon I got home from the ...

It seems the diversity of domestic dogs first began developing thousands of years before humans started intensely shaping modern breeds in the 19th century—challenging what we thought about canine ...