New analysis of 11,000-year-old dog skulls is forcing scientists to redraw the timeline of how wolves became the animals that ...

A new study shows that diversity in dog breeds came around 11,00 years ago, much earlier than the Victorian period.

The scientists found that 64.1% of modern breed dogs carry wolf ancestry due to genetic crossbreeding nearly 1,000 ...

Their new study, published in PNAS, examined 2,693 genomes from modern and ancient dogs and wolves. It shows that 64% of dog ...

Scientists have long wondered when the domestication of dogs first started. Dogs are believed to be the first domesticated ...

New research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History reveals that the majority of dogs living today have low but detectable ...

A little-known dog lineage with fur so thick it was spun into blankets was selectively bred for millennia by Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest until its rapid demise following European ...

A study published in the journal Evolution investigated brain size in both modern and ancient dog breeds. The research team ...

New research shows that domestic dogs began diversifying at least 11,000 years ago, long before modern breeding. A major ...