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

Scientists can’t paint a picture of exactly what the first dogs looked like, but think they resembled smaller wolves.

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

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

Dogs are often thought of as man's best friend, and it turns out that they may have been by humans' sides for far longer than ...

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

Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully emerged, according to a new study. Archaeologists found the remains, dated ...

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 ...

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