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

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

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

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

Imagine a time thousands of years ago when wild wolves roamed near human camps, their eyes gleaming in the firelight. These fierce hunters would eventually become our loyal companions, transforming ...

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

Scientists think dogs descended from an ancient population of gray wolves somewhere in Europe or Asia. Tens of thousands of ...

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by U.S. scientists, who were surprised to ...

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

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware -- they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by US scientists, who were surprised to find ...