Domestic dogs are among the most diverse mammals on the planet. From the tiny chihuahua to the towering great dane, the ...

From village dogs to toy poodles to mastiffs, dogs come in an astonishing array of shapes, colors and sizes. Today there are ...

The Airedale Terrier is another bearded breed, famous for its facial hair. These dogs are hard-working, independent, and ...

But within a few thousand years, generations of domesticated life had started to become visible in dogs’ bones. The oldest ...

Advances in sequencing ancient DNA have revealed that over millenia, people have moved into new regions in successive waves, ...

These findings contradict the notion that such diversity was mainly a relatively new phenomenon driven by selective breeding ...

Scientists have traced the earliest dog skulls to about 11,000 years ago. The research suggests domestication began in the Ice Age, well before humans started creating modern breeds.

A new study finds that the wide range of domestic dog shapes and physical attributes we're familiar with today first started appearing thousands of years ago.

Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have ...