Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago.

Two studies published in Nature on March 25, 2026, have extracted and analyzed ancient DNA from more than 200 dog and wolf ...

One dog, known from bones found at the Pinarbasi rock shelter site in Turkey used by ancient human hunter-gatherers, is about ...

Odin was a kelpie. Attentive and protective, with a happy smile and an endless hope for food, he succumbed to a terminal disease late last year. At his death, a deep sense of grief ripped through the ...

Scientists have confirmed using full genome analysis that dogs were already living as human companions over 14,000 years ago.

Dogs were our friends and guardians thousands of years before the end of the last ice age, with new studies identifying a ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...