Between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago, people in Alaska kept reinventing dogs with mixed results. The dogs that share our homes today are the descendants of a single group of wolves that lived in Siberia ...

Scientists don't know exactly how wolves were domesticated into early dogs, but it's possible that they domesticated themselves by choosing to coexist with humans so that, a new study finds, they ...

A while ago, on a warm summer evening in Northern Poland, I went into the forest with my dog. I walked for a while on forest trails and didn't realize that the sun had set. Eventually, I had to admit ...

Dogs first became “man’s best friend” at least 12,000 years ago, new research suggests. Indigenous people in the Americas began forming close relationships with the ancestors of today’s dogs around ...

Centuries-old DNA has confirmed that Greenland’s sledge dog Qimmit is the oldest yet known domesticated dog breed, a discovery that sheds more light on their close relationship with the region’s ...

Two well-preserved ice age “puppies” found in Northern Siberia may not be dogs at all, according to new research. Still covered in fur and naturally preserved in ice for thousands of years, the “Tumat ...

"Following that same path today." New study reveals surprising wild animal that could become next popular household pet: ...

A team of mathematicians and statisticians from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, the University of Tennessee and Valparaiso University, all in the U.S., has found new evidence that wolves had ...

Getting greeted at the door by a wagging tail is one of the purest pleasures of owning a pooch. No matter how big, small, or fluffy your dog’s tail is, they will move it around, often at great speed!