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

Pets are far from a modern invention, or even medieval one. New DNA analysis shows that dogs were living alongside hunters and gatherers as far back as 15,800 years ago. People probably even exchanged ...

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

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

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

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

They examined ancient genes from the remains of over 200 dogs and wolves. The oldest dated back to about 15,800 years ago, ...

Two new ancient DNA studies suggest that domesticated dogs were widespread in western Eurasia more than 14,000 years ago ...

However, dogs do not have complex language, yet some can still adjust their pitch. The paper explains that this ability can ...

Dogs are often thought of as man's best friend, and it turns out that they may have been by humans' sides for far longer than ...