New research on 11,000-year-old dog skulls is forcing scientists to redraw the timeline of how wolves became our closest animal partners. Instead of a slow, recent march from generic village mutt to ...

A strange and mysterious extinct dog breed from far southern South America might not have been a dog at all. The “Fuegian dogs” that lived with the Indigenous peoples of the Tierra del Fuego ...

Dogs were the first domesticated animals and have been an ever-present part of humanity since that time. Yet, we know very little about how this relationship began. When were dogs domesticated and how ...