Long before written history, early families moving across Eurasia kept dogs close as companions and helpers. A sweeping new study offers the clearest evidence yet that the history of dogs is ...

This means the wide range of shapes and sizes dogs have today isn’t solely a product of the intense selective breeding programs that became popular in the last few centuries. Some of that variation ...

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

Dog diversity in size and shape started 11,000 years ago, predating modern breeding. Research on dog and wolf skulls has ...

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, ...

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

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.

A new study reveals that the remarkable diversity in dog sizes and shapes began at least 11,000 years ago. By examining the ...

Modern dog breeds come in a mind-boggling array of shapes and sizes—from Chihuahua to Great Dane, corgi to greyhound, pug to ...

While the range of physical diversity dogs show is often thought to be the result of intense breeding over the last 200 years, a new study – based on ...