Researchers believed they evolved from grey wolves during the last Ice Age, but dog remains discovered at Gough’s Cave in ...

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

A jawbone found in a Somerset cave rewrites the story of when and how dogs became our best friends.

Dogs have been loyal companions to people since we made them our first domesticated animals, descending long ago from gray ...

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.

The findings challenge prevailing domestication timelines in anthropology.

Bones unearthed at several sites show that dogs were widely distributed across West Eurasia by at least 14,000 years ago.

(THE CONVERSATION) Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that ...

The remarkable surge in genetic technology has now allowed us to look at dogs and dog breeds in a whole new way. We can not only determine the wild canine ancestral species from which our dogs were ...

The gray wolf, also called the timber wolf, is the largest member of the canine family with fur ranging from gray to brown, black or white. Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology ...