The dog, descended from an ancient wolf population separate from modern wolves, was the first animal domesticated by people, ...

Dogs have been our companions for 15,800 years, study finds - Scientists don't know exactly what the first dogs looked like, ...

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

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

Dogs were our friends and guardians thousands of years before the end of the last ice age, with new studies identifying a puppy that lived 15,800 years ago.

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

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

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 U.S. scientists, who were surprised to ...

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 ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another.

The close relationship between humans and dogs has been ongoing for more than 14,000 years, a new study has discovered.