The bond between humans and dogs goes back thousands of years. Scientists are now studying ancient dog DNA to find out how it ...

For thousands of years, dogs have been man’s best friend. When humans still lived primarily in hunter-gatherer societies, dogs were among the first domesticated animals. And as the millennia passed, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Modern wolves and dogs both descend from an ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears. Iza Lyson ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the ...

The staggering array of modern dog breeds is typically traced to the Victorian era. But half of all canine variation was in place roughly 10,000 years ago, a new study suggests. By Emily Anthes As a ...

Learn more about how ancient wolf DNA is still found in modern dogs, and how it’s shaped those breeds. All modern-day pooches, from beefy Newfoundlands to scrawny Salukis, are descended from an ...

Our best friends come in a fantastic array of shapes and sizes; a Borzoi looks nothing like a Boston terrier, except for a certain fundamental, ineffable (except to taxonomists) doggyness about them.

As the One Ear wolf pack establishes a heavy presence near his family’s four-generation cattle ranch in North Park, Adam ...

Wolves in Colorado are a problem for some ranchers. They're hoping a map created by dogs might be able to help protect their ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that have evolved to live ...