They examined ancient genes from the remains of over 200 dogs and wolves. The oldest dated back to about 15,800 years ago, ...

One dog, known from bones found at the Pinarbasi rock shelter site in Turkey used by ancient human hunter-gatherers, is about ...

A jawbone found in a Somerset cave rewrites the story of when and how dogs became our best friends.

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

Dogs were our friends and guardians thousands of years before the end of the last ice age, with new studies identifying a ...

Two new studies suggest that genetically stable dogs were living among humans in Europe by about 14,000 years ago.

The oldest ancient dog genomes on record all come from a population that lived alongside Ice Age hunter-gatherers across ...

Research suggests hunter-gatherers were feeding dogs and giving them ritual burials as early as the last ice age ...

The discovery of the oldest ever dog DNA suggests they have been our best friends for nearly 16,000 years – 5,000 years ...

Geneticists are pushing back the timeline of when people first domesticated dogs in Europe. Using the DNA from over 200 ...

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 ...