It seems the diversity of domestic dogs first began developing thousands of years before humans started intensely shaping modern breeds in the 19th century—challenging what we thought about canine ...

The domestication of dogs began around 15,000 years ago, when wolves first started to be domesticated by humans. It is believed that early humans tamed wolves and eventually bred them to create the ...

It was with some enthusiasm that I read the title of an article in the November 11 issue of the journal Dog Behavior on the transformation of some wolves to dogs: “Scavenging Hypothesis: Lack of ...

Modern dog breeds come in a mind-boggling array of shapes and sizes—from Chihuahua to Great Dane, corgi to greyhound, pug to German shepherd. In fact, the domestic dog, Canis familiaris, shows more ...

A report in Discovery News and other media outlets that a trio of researchers had resurrected a nearly dead theory of dog domestication came across my computer screen on Thursday, along with several ...