“A reduction in skull size for dogs is first detectable between 9,700–8,700 years ago, while an increase in size variance ...

With more than 6.5 million square miles of land, Russia is the largest country in the world. This country is also home to a diverse group of beautiful dog breeds that are known for their toughness.

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

These findings contradict the notion that such diversity was mainly a relatively new phenomenon driven by selective breeding ...

A surprising diversity of dog shapes and sizes evolved long before the Victorians began making modern breeds Modern dog breeds come in a mind-boggling array of shapes and sizes—from Chihuahua to Great ...

Greenland sled dogs can trace their origins back nearly 10,000 years. In a new study published July 10 in the journal Science, paleogeneticists mapped the path of these culturally important canines ...

We often attribute this diversity to a relatively recent phenomenon: the Victorian kennel clubs that first emerged around 200 years ago. These clubs are usually credited with formalising the selective ...