Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have ...

Recent analysis has challenged long-held assumptions about the origins of canine diversity, revealing that dogs were already ...

The Alabai is an ancient dog breed that has been a part of human history for thousands of years, and its impact on empires ...

Finally, Fido has a proper family tree. Genetic researchers have assembled the most definitive evolutionary tree of dogs using gene sequences from 161 modern breeds. The map of dog breeds and how they ...

Origins of the dog: domestication and early history / JulieClutton-Brock -- Evolution of working dogs / Raymond Coppinger and Richard Schneider -- Genetic aspects of dog behaviour with particular ...

“Puppy-dog eyes didn’t just evolve for us, in domestic dogs,” says comparative anatomist Heather Smith. Her team’s work has thrown a 2019 finding 1 that the muscles in dogs’ eyebrows evolved to ...

Whether you own a mix-breed dog or have adopted a mystery-breed shelter pupper, you may be searching for an answer to the question: “what breed is my dog?” Or, you could be considering going deeper ...