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

A dog looking directly at a camera. “Ignore my annoying baby talk, but I love seeing her eyes dilate when I talk to her. It ...

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

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

Learn how dogs can detect cancer and diabetes in humans using their extraordinary sense of smell, alerting owners to health ...

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

Some bones indicate that the hunter-gatherers of the time fed dogs fish. Their remains were also treated in similar ways to ...

Can old dogs teach us new tricks for how to live longer, healthier lives? A nationwide project searches for answers.

According to researchers, modern dog genetic lineages must have been established by the Upper Palaeolithic, the final phase ...

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