For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to herding and companionship. This deliberate shaping of traits has resulted in ...

New analysis of 11,000-year-old dog skulls is forcing scientists to redraw the timeline of how wolves became the animals that now sleep on our sofas. Instead of a slow, uniform shift from wolf to dog, ...

From palm-sized Chihuahuas to Great Danes that could pass for small horses, dogs today come in more shapes than any other mammal species on Earth. We often chalk that up to modern breeding that began ...

An international team of researchers led by the Francis Crick Institute, the University of East Anglia and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has found that dogs were domesticated ...

Scientists have discovered that dogs may be entering a new wave of domestication, as humans now seek to have companions that are friendlier and calmer. A few decades ago, dogs were seen as animals ...

Today, biologists taking a closer look at the animals located inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), which is about the size of Yosemite National Park, and investigating how decades of radiation ...