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

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

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

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

How much influence did humans really have on the enormous variety of today’s dog breeds? An analysis of dog skulls from the last 50,000 years brings surprising insights to light: As early as 11,000 ...

Have you ever walked past a dog so massive that you had to do a double take, wondering how much it eats or where it even ...

“We found that dogs were already remarkably diverse in their skull shapes and sizes more than 11,000 years ago — long before ...

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

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

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

A new study has revealed that dogs began their physical transformation from wolves during the Middle Stone Age - several ...

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