New analysis of 11,000-year-old dog skulls is forcing scientists to redraw the timeline of how wolves became the animals that now sleep on our sofas. Instead of a slow, uniform shift from wolf to dog, ...

Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient ...

Bones from the turn of the Holocene indicate that humans were feeding canines—including wolves and coyotes—fish over 10,000 years ago, Reading time 3 minutes Who let the dogs out? It remains unclear, ...

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

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 ...

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Genomic analysis of more than 2,700 dog and wolf genomes shows that most modern dogs carry small traces of post-domestication ...

Domestic dogs are among the most diverse mammals on the planet. From the tiny chihuahua to the towering great dane, the flat-faced pug to the long-muzzled borzoi, the sheer range of canine shapes and ...

I want to begin this post with an apology and a thank-you to all my loyal readers who began with Dog’s Best Friend nine years ago, long before a pandemic ever entered our imagination, except for the ...

The scientists found that the wildcats lived alongside humans for some 3,500 years—but despite all that time, they were a ...