Selective breeding has dramatically transformed dogs over the last 100 years, often at the expense of their health. Modern ...

From Pekingese to St. Bernard and greyhound, dogs come in such startling variety it's easy to forget they belong to the same species. The profusion of breeds today -- at least 150 -- reflects ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Science of Dogs blog compared popular dog breeds from the 1915 book "Dogs of All Nations" to their current day counterparts. Produced by Emmanuel Ocbazghi ...

The mitochondrial genome was used because of earlier work by Vilà that showed the nuclear genomes of dogs and wolves to be too similar to study their molecular evolution. On the other hand ...

A new study challenges long-standing beliefs by suggesting that dog skull shape does not determine task performance.

Louis and senior author of a study in Genome Biology and Evolution. "Given the close evolutionary relationship between coyotes and domestic dogs, we leveraged the dog genome to think about what ...