Geneticists are pushing back the timeline of when people first domesticated dogs in Europe. Using the DNA from over 200 ...

Two new ancient DNA studies suggest that domesticated dogs were widespread in western Eurasia more than 14,000 years ago ...

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

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

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

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

Bones unearthed at several sites show that dogs were widely distributed across West Eurasia by at least 14,000 years ago.

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

One dog, known from bones found at the Pinarbasi rock shelter site in Turkey used by ancient human hunter-gatherers, is about ...

Long before humans developed their love of cats, Paleolithic hunter-gatherers were very much dog people. According to new ...

There’s a lot we don’t know about how and when dogs were first domesticated. But we do know that the process made dogs very ...

Wolves and humans were early competitors that both hunted in packs for large prey, shared ecological niches, and could kill each other. Debate exists over the exact origin of domesticated dogs, but ...