Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago.

One dog, known from bones found at the Pinarbasi rock shelter site in Turkey used by ancient human hunter-gatherers, is about ...

Dogs were our friends and guardians thousands of years before the end of the last ice age, with new studies identifying a ...

Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully emerged, according to a new study. Archaeologists found the remains, dated ...

The close relationship between humans and dogs has been ongoing for more than 14,000 years, a new study has discovered.

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

Some bones indicate that the hunter-gatherers of the time fed dogs fish. Their remains were also treated in similar ways to ...

Wolves are often seen as dangerous predators, but real-world data tells a more complex story. While rare attacks have happened, encounters between humans and wolves are extremely uncommon. At the same ...

Learn how DNA from 14,200-year-old dogs shows they lived in Europe before farming and traces their ancestry to eastern wolves ...

Research suggests hunter-gatherers were feeding dogs and giving them ritual burials as early as the last ice age ...

Hunting companion, alarm system, loyal partner? The history of dogs by our side may have begun much earlier than we long ...

Wolves became dogs via cooperation and reciprocity rather than through competition with humans "I wrote this book to remind people that the wolves we often demonize and persecute through wildlife ...