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

Erika Rosengren, Historical Museum, Lund University - PHOTO: Sampling of a Swedish dog in the study from the Bökebergsslät site. The origins of how dogs became man's best friend across large swaths of ...

Humans may have domesticated dogs two separate times, taming wolves both in Europe and Asia thousands of years ago, according to new research. A major international research project may have cleared ...

A while ago, on a warm summer evening in Northern Poland, I went into the forest with my dog. I walked for a while on forest trails and didn't realize that the sun had set. Eventually, I had to admit ...

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 ...

For years, scientists could only genetically prove that the first dogs existed about 10,000 years ago, but perhaps they were just barking up the wrong prehistoric tree. ANDERS BERGSTROM: We have ...