An international team of scientists has used ancient DNA samples to elucidate the population history of dogs. The results show that dogs had already diverged into at least five distinct lineages by ...

Bones from the turn of the Holocene indicate that humans were feeding canines—including wolves and coyotes—fish over 10,000 years ago, Reading time 3 minutes Who let the dogs out? It remains unclear, ...

Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully ...

Meet Dogor, the prehistoric puppy buried in Russia’s permafrost for the last 18,000 years. The good boy, believed to have died at two months old, was discovered last year in frozen mud in Yakutsk, a ...

A remarkable discovery on a remote Swedish island is reshaping what scientists know about early human–wolf relationships and ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (StudyFinds.org) – How did dogs get those irresistible puppy dog eyes? It turns out it took a lot of effort by our ancestors. Researchers believe humans selectively bred the first ...

For hundreds of years, there was one way to study human prehistory: Put on a pith helmet, go to a desert in Africa or the Middle East, dig up some skeletons and artifacts, and make inferences based on ...

Man's best friend gained that title in Europe, according to a new study that pinpoints the origin of dog domestication to between 18,800 and 32,100 years ago. The study places the origin of dogs ...

Prehistoric wolf remains discovered on the Swedish island of Stora Karlsö suggest humans cared for wolves thousands of years ...