It is not farfetched to say that dogs and people were made for each other, although how the partnership between these two vastly different species came about remains an enduring historical mystery. It ...

Dogs in Europe had been domesticated from wild wolves by at least 14,200 years ago, two new genetic studies suggest. The two studies are a “significant advance” in understanding how dogs evolved from ...

The enduring and profound connection between canines and human beings runs deep, and now research has revealed that it may go back even further than previously thought. According to a new ancient DNA ...

Dogs were likely domesticated more than 14,000 years ago, a new study published this week found. In the largest study of canine remains to date, researchers from 17 institutions, including ...

Dogs have a very special bond with humans. They were the first mammal to be domesticated, and we have fashioned them into many different shapes and sizes to fulfil different roles. Wherever you find ...

Long before humans developed their love of cats, Paleolithic hunter-gatherers were very much dog people. According to new research, pre-agricultural populations across Eurasia routinely treated ...

The oldest dog genomes on record all come from a population that lived alongside Ice Age hunter-gatherers across Europe and the Middle East. The remains, from the United Kingdom, Switzerland and ...

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Two companion papers published in Nature have identified the oldest genomes ever recovered from domestic dogs, tracing a single ancestral population that spread across western Eurasia between 18,500 ...