Dogs have a very special bond with humans. They were the first mammal to be domesticated, and we have fashioned them into ...

Scientists don't know exactly how wolves were domesticated into early dogs, but it's possible that they domesticated themselves by choosing to coexist with humans so that, a new study finds, they ...

Between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago, people in Alaska kept reinventing dogs with mixed results. The dogs that share our homes today are the descendants of a single group of wolves that lived in Siberia ...

A new study published in Animal Cognition suggests that while dogs appear more affectionate and submissive than wolves during greetings with humans, these differences may not be solely due to ...

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 ...

Bones from the turn of the Holocene indicate that humans were feeding canines—including wolves and coyotes—fish over 10,000 years ago, Reading time 3 minutes Who let the dogs out? It remains unclear, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. From their wolf ancestors to today’s sweet, loyal ...

Most pet dogs carry small fragments of wolf DNA, left behind after their long association with people. That genetic trace is ...

I want to begin this post with an apology and a thank-you to all my loyal readers who began with Dog’s Best Friend nine years ago, long before a pandemic ever entered our imagination, except for the ...

Selection is based on breeding the ones most useful. They don't even need that knowledge. Keep & feed only the ones that are useful and not dangerous to the handler (for guard dogs a vicious reaction ...