Bluey may be a teeny-tiny Chihuahua, but he delivers an oversized howl—especially while trying to steal the spotlight from ...

D roopy ears are a pretty common trait in Bloodhounds, Basset Hounds and Beagles. Most dogs with long ears were bred to ...

Ciara Farrell, a Kennel Club Historian, tells Country Living: "Dog ‘breeds’, as we know them today, are a fairly modern ...

Dog diversity in size and shape started 11,000 years ago, predating modern breeding. Research on dog and wolf skulls has ...

Ancient dog skulls and DNA reveal a surprising diversity in shape and size over 10,000 years ago, long before modern breeds.

While the research suggests a large amount of diversity existed as early as the Stone Age, many of the dogs we keep as pets ...

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 ...

Advances in sequencing ancient DNA have revealed that over millenia, people have moved into new regions in successive waves, ...

People often think this variety began with Victorian dog breeders. But a study of more than 600 ancient and modern dog and wolf skulls shows that much of today’s dog diversity actually started ...

Dogs were more than just tools, they were companions and symbols in human society. Their importance: over millennia, humans shaped dogs for function, culture, and identity, making the early variation ...

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