Dr Carly Ameen from the University of Exeter, another lead researcher on this project, explained to BBC News that almost half of the diversity we see in modern dog breeds today was already present in ...

What do Persian cats, Pekingese dogs and pugs have in common? They all share a dramatically distorted skull, with a flat, round face and a nose pushed up between their eyes. This unnatural morphology ...

Retrievers that don’t retrieve and Papillons that point are all possible because the genes that shape dog behavior predate modern breeding that focuses on appearance, researchers find. By James Gorman ...

New research contradicts the notion that such diversity was mainly a relatively new phenomenon driven by selective breeding ...

Purebred dogs may look flawless, but generations of selective breeding have left these pooches struggling with serious health problems. These ten breeds show how changing the natural bodies of animals ...