A genetic study shows how human breeding choices influence ear length in dogs and why those traits persist across breeds.

Dogs have a very special bond with humans. They were the first mammal to be domesticated, and we have fashioned them into ...

Dogs have a measurable ability to read human emotion, and research consistently shows that interacting with dogs lowers ...

Since their domestication millennia ago, dogs have been man’s best friend, and aside from friendship, centuries of selective breeding have tailored them for tasks like herding, hunting and guarding — ...

What do Persian cats, Pekingese dogs and pugs have in common? They all share a dramatically distorted skull, with a flat, round face and a nose pushed up between their eyes. This unnatural morphology ...

The domestication of dogs began around 15,000 years ago, when wolves first started to be domesticated by humans. It is believed that early humans tamed wolves and eventually bred them to create the ...

Just like all animals and humans, dogs too evolve over time but majorly they were inbred by humans specifically to achieve desirable traits such as specific looks, size and temperament. But this ...