Living alongside humans changed both how dogs behave and how they look. Research shows that domestic dogs developed a small ...

The oldest ancient dog genomes on record all come from a population that lived alongside Ice Age hunter-gatherers across ...

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

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

Scientists have confirmed using full genome analysis that dogs were already living as human companions over 14,000 years ago.

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

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 ...

Scientists think dogs descended from an ancient population of gray wolves somewhere in Europe or Asia. Tens of thousands of ...

Dogs have traditionally been famous for their ability to produce the most expressive howls. They often join in whenever they ...