Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Modern wolves and dogs both descend from an ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears. Iza Lyson ...

Pushing back the domestication timeline by 5,000 years via ancient DNA, a new study suggests that dogs lived with humans ...

A jawbone found in a Somerset cave rewrites the story of when and how dogs became our best friends.

When were dogs born? A new study sought to finally answer that age-old, burning ...

Researchers believed they evolved from grey wolves during the last Ice Age, but dog remains discovered at Gough’s Cave in ...

Dogs have been loyal companions to people since we made them our first domesticated animals, descending long ago from gray ...

Scientists have confirmed using full genome analysis that dogs were already living as human companions over 14,000 years ago.

The remarkable surge in genetic technology has now allowed us to look at dogs and dog breeds in a whole new way. We can not only determine the wild canine ancestral species from which our dogs were ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that have evolved to live ...

The gray wolf, also called the timber wolf, is the largest member of the canine family with fur ranging from gray to brown, black or white. Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology ...