Alaskan Malamutes were originally bred as working sled dogs and they have extremely high energy levels. As such, they are ...

The Chow Chow is a regal and dignified breed with a lion-like mane, known for their aloof demeanor, loyalty, and protective ...

While modern breeds like Golden Retrievers and Labradoodles are relatively recent developments, several ancient dog breeds have maintained their distinctive characteristics across millennia ...

What the findings do suggest, however, is that “the proto-domestication hypothesis cannot be rejected on the basis of time ...

Alaskan Malamutes are large dogs that have been bred for thousands of years, making them one of the oldest dog breeds in the world. Prized for being strong and more than capable of working for ...

New Guinea highland wild dogs are the most ancient and primitive canids in the world. More from Science Researchers from the New Guinea Highland Wild Dog Foundation, Inc. located at least 15 New ...

The result is that many modern breeds suffer from ailments that dog lovers never would have deliberately selected for.

In work described in PNAS, 3 the researchers analyzed the genomes of ancient Siberian dogs to figure out where their ancestors and their owners had come from. “Where humans go, so go their dogs,” said ...

At an ancient Roman quarry in Surrey ... believe one of these pieces may be a first-of-its-kind ritualistic stained dog penis bone, according to a Dec. 25 study published in the peer-reviewed ...

Then they compared the wolf DNA, which makes up the genome, to DNA of modern and ancient dogs. By analyzing the DNA, scientists found early and modern dogs are most similar to gray wolves in ...