Dogs have a very special bond with humans. They were the first mammal to be domesticated, and we have fashioned them into many different shapes and sizes to fulfil different roles. Wherever you find ...

Wolves and humans were early competitors that both hunted in packs for large prey, shared ecological niches, and could kill each other. Debate exists over the exact origin of domesticated dogs, but ...

A new study suggests dogs began to diversify about 11,000 years earlier than we thought. Plus, a long-running experiment to ...

Between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago, people in Alaska kept reinventing dogs with mixed results. The dogs that share our homes today are the descendants of a single group of wolves that lived in Siberia ...

Despite a steady flow of new papers that chip away at the edifice of “settled science” regarding the domestication of animals, any number of experts, including those whose research contributes to the ...

There’s a lot we don’t know about how and when dogs were first domesticated. But we do know that the process made dogs very ...