As human groups migrated and settled across Holocene Eurasia, dogs often traveled with them, researchers report in a new genomic study – and sometimes dogs were traded among populations. The study ...

From folktales to epics dogs appear again and again beside humanity. Long before modern science explained canine behaviour or ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

Like the latest iPhone model, new dog breeds drop all the time. In early 2025, the American Kennel Club officially announced the Danish-Swedish Farmdog as the 202nd recognized dog breed. It’s only the ...

It might sometimes feel hard to believe when you're looking at a Chihuahua in a cushy dog bed or a golden retriever in a yellow raincoat and boots, but domestic dogs - yes, all domestic dogs - are the ...

A genomic study shows that over the last 10,000 years, diverse Eurasian cultures kept and spread genetically distinct dog populations. Dogs have been part of human societies across Eurasia for at ...

Dogs today come in a mind- blowing array of shapes and sizes, but when did this diversity in canine forms begin? New research ...

New research shows humans may have brought wolves to a remote island, fed them, and cared for them thousands of years ago.

Scientists have uncovered ancient wolf remains on a small Baltic island where wolves could only have been brought by humans.