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

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

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

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

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 ...

Dogs are often thought of as man's best friend, and it turns out that they may have been by humans' sides for far longer than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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