An archaeological study has revealed when domestic dogs first began to show the remarkable diversity that characterizes them ...

Biologist and archaeologist Allowen Evin, of CNRS, and her colleagues compared the size and shape of 643 skulls from dogs and wolves: 158 from modern dogs, 86 from modern wolves, and 391 from ...

Modern dog breeds come in a mind-boggling array of shapes and sizes—from Chihuahua to Great Dane, corgi to greyhound, pug to ...

Distinct domestic dog types could have started developing thousands of years before modern breeding, archaeologists find.

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

Dr Carly Ameen from the University of Exeter, another lead researcher on this project, explained to BBC News that almost half ...