Scientists can’t paint a picture of exactly what the first dogs looked like, but think they resembled smaller wolves.

One dog, known from bones found at the Pinarbasi rock shelter site in Turkey used by ancient human hunter-gatherers, is about 5,000 years older than the previous earliest-known, genetically confirmed ...

When were dogs born? A new study sought to finally answer that age-old, burning ...

Ancient remains in Turkey reveal earliest known dog.

Using the oldest dog genes studied so far, scientists are finding more evidence that our furry friends have been our ...

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

Pushing back the domestication timeline by 5,000 years via ancient DNA, a new study suggests that dogs lived with humans ...

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

Geneticists are pushing back the timeline of when people first domesticated dogs in Europe. Using the DNA from over 200 ...

An important difference between dogs and wolves in how they relate to humans has been demonstrated to be the result of genetics rather than life experience. Jason Goldman, in "The Thoughtful Animal," ...