Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remains on a small island in the Baltic Sea suggest that humans kept and cared for wolves for thousands of years before they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chihuahuas have about 0.2 percent wolf ancestry, according to a new study. While that chihuahua might seem about as similar to a ...

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 ...

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

Two new studies suggest that genetically stable dogs were living among humans in Europe by about 14,000 years ago.

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