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

Does your dog howl like a wolf? This question inspired a group of researchers to learn whether dog breeds can regulate the ...

Two studies published in Nature on March 25, 2026, have extracted and analyzed ancient DNA from more than 200 dog and wolf ...

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

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

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

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 ...