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

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

Research suggests hunter-gatherers were feeding dogs and giving them ritual burials as early as the last ice age ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

Odin was a kelpie. Attentive and protective, with a happy smile and an endless hope for food, he succumbed to a terminal ...

However, in this study, scientists from 17 institutions recovered whole genomes from specimens older than 10,000 years. Comparing them with over 1,000 ancient and modern dogs and wolves confirmed the ...