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

The oldest ancient dog genomes on record all come from a population that lived alongside Ice Age hunter-gatherers across ...

Learn how DNA from 14,200-year-old dogs shows they lived in Europe before farming and traces their ancestry to eastern wolves ...

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

Two new studies suggest that genetically stable dogs were living among humans in Europe by about 14,000 years ago.

Scientists think dogs descended from an ancient population of gray wolves somewhere in Europe or Asia. Tens of thousands of ...

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

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by U.S. scientists, who were surprised to ...

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

They examined ancient genes from the remains of over 200 dogs and wolves. The oldest dated back to about 15,800 years ago, ...

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware -- they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by US scientists, who were surprised to find ...