Dogs have a very special bond with humans. They were the first mammal to be domesticated, and we have fashioned them into ...

Scientists don't know exactly how wolves were domesticated into early dogs, but it's possible that they domesticated themselves by choosing to coexist with humans so that, a new study finds, they ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dogs first became “man’s best friend” at least 12,000 years ago, new research suggests. Indigenous people in the Americas began forming close relationships with the ancestors of today’s dogs around ...

Centuries-old DNA has confirmed that Greenland’s sledge dog Qimmit is the oldest yet known domesticated dog breed, a discovery that sheds more light on their close relationship with the region’s ...

A while ago, on a warm summer evening in Northern Poland, I went into the forest with my dog. I walked for a while on forest trails and didn't realize that the sun had set. Eventually, I had to admit ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Genetic information from a 35,000-year-old wolf bone found below a frozen cliff in Siberia is shedding new light on humankind's long relationship with dogs, showing canine ...

It’s hard to imagine that dogs descended from fierce grey wolves—especially when your fat labrador begs for peanut butter, or your poodle snores on the couch. And yet, that’s exactly what happened.