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

Dogs transformed from wolves during the Stone Age, study finds - Dogs developed stockier faces and shorter snouts shortly ...

The staggering array of modern dog breeds is typically traced to the Victorian era. But half of all canine variation was in ...

Contrary to popular belief, the roots of modern dog breeds extend far beyond the Victorian-era breeding efforts of the 19th ...

Wolf-dog hybrids are bred by crossing domestic dogs with wolves, sometimes just a few generations back. They carry physical traits and instincts that set them far apart from standard breeds. These ...

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

The huge range of dog breeds that exists today is often thought of as a modern phenomenon, but new research suggests this ...

A surprising diversity of dog shapes and sizes evolved long before the Victorians began making modern breeds Modern dog breeds come in a mind-boggling array of shapes and sizes—from Chihuahua to Great ...

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

Distinct domestic dog types could have started developing thousands of years before modern breeding, archaeologists find.

The remarkable surge in genetic technology has now allowed us to look at dogs and dog breeds in a whole new way. We can not only determine the wild canine ancestral species from which our dogs were ...