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

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

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

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

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

One dog, known from bones found at the Pinarbasi rock shelter site in Turkey used by ancient human hunter-gatherers, is about ...

Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully emerged, according to a new study. Archaeologists found the remains, dated ...