Ancient DNA from dogs and wolves has been analyzed to build a picture of when dogs were domesticated and how they evolved from the pre-Neolithic period to modern day.

What’s furry, cute, and may have ancestral ties to ancient wolves? Possibly, your dog. Researchers at the New York-based American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have found that the majority of today ...

Learn more about the evolution of domesticated dogs from wolf to pug.

Humans and dogs have shared a loyal bond since the dawn of domestication, yet the specific when, where, and why of their evolution from grey wolves has long been a mystery. However, new

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

A team of mathematicians and statisticians from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, the University of Tennessee and Valparaiso University, all in the U.S., has found new evidence that wolves had ample time to self-domesticate and evolve into modern dogs.

This puppy mummy was found in permafrost near the Indigirka River, northeast of Yakutsk, Russia. The state of preservation was very good and remained not only in the whole body, nose, mouth and teeth, but also in beards and eyelashes. The actual photo is below