Learn how DNA from 14,200-year-old dogs shows they lived in Europe before farming and traces their ancestry to eastern wolves ...

The dog, descended from an ancient wolf population separate from modern wolves, was the first animal domesticated by people, ...

The findings challenge prevailing domestication timelines in anthropology.

This unique relationship between people and dogs has existed for such a long time and is continuing on today,” said ...

Using the oldest dog genes studied so far, scientists are finding more evidence that our furry friends have been our ...

Ancient DNA from dogs and wolves has been analyzed to build a picture of when dogs were domesticated and how they evolved ...

It’s no secret that dogs used to be wolves – a once-wild species domesticated over generations until it became humanity’s best and most understanding friend. But the precise route from point A to ...

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

What’s furry, cute, and may have ancestral ties to ancient wolves? Possibly, your dog. Researchers at the New York-based American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea – a place where the animals could only have been brought by humans. The study, published in ...

Colossal Biosciences, a biotech company, is using gene-editing technology to resurrect extinct species like the dodo and the woolly mammoth.

New genetic research has identified the earliest-known dog, dating back 15,800 years, from a hunter-gatherer site in central ...