The dog, descended from an ancient wolf population separate from modern wolves, was the first animal domesticated by people, ...

The findings challenge prevailing domestication timelines in anthropology.

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

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

Some bones indicate that the hunter-gatherers of the time fed dogs fish. Their remains were also treated in similar ways to ...

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

Learn how DNA from 14,200-year-old dogs shows they lived in Europe before farming and traces their ancestry to eastern wolves ...