Learn more about the evolution of domesticated dogs from wolf to pug.

New research on 11,000-year-old dog skulls is forcing scientists to redraw the timeline of how wolves became our closest animal partners. Instead of a slow, recent march from generic village mutt to ...

Dogs were domesticated around 11,000 years ago. Until recently, it was thought that breed diversity emerged in Victorian times. Recent studies of dog skulls have shown that diversity actually started ...

When most people picture ancient dogs, they imagine something wolf-like—sleek, long-snouted, and built for the hunt. But a major new archaeological study reveals a very different story. Thousands of ...

A new study shows how humans moved across the landscapes of ancient Greece, shaped by slope, visibility, and rugged terrain.

(THE CONVERSATION) Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that ...

Although dogs were the first animals to be domesticated by humans, other animals have been cooperating with people in ...

The gray wolf, also called the timber wolf, is the largest member of the canine family with fur ranging from gray to brown, black or white. Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology ...