Scientists think dogs descended from an ancient population of gray wolves somewhere in Europe or Asia. Tens of thousands of ...
Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago.
One dog, known from bones found at the Pinarbasi rock shelter site in Turkey used by ancient human hunter-gatherers, is about ...
Two new studies suggest that genetically stable dogs were living among humans in Europe by about 14,000 years ago.
Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully emerged, according to a new study. Archaeologists found the remains, dated ...
Bones unearthed at several sites show that dogs were widely distributed across West Eurasia by at least 14,000 years ago.
An international team of researchers led by the Francis Crick Institute, the University of East Anglia and the Max Planck ...
Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware -- they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by US scientists, who were surprised to find ...