Participate in a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and more this month at the National Museum of Natural History Jack Tamisiea Tens of thousands of years ago, ancient humans domesticated the ancestors of gray ...

The huge range of dog breeds that exists today is often thought of as a modern phenomenon, but new research suggests this ...

Have you ever looked at your dog’s face and thought that there definitely is a human soul trapped in a dog body? Indeed, the dog-human bond is something of an anomaly in how easily two completely ...

“Puppy-dog eyes didn’t just evolve for us, in domestic dogs,” says comparative anatomist Heather Smith. Her team’s work has thrown a 2019 finding 1 that the muscles in dogs’ eyebrows evolved to ...

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Recent analysis has challenged long-held assumptions about the origins of canine diversity, revealing that dogs were already diverse 11,000 years before the advent of modern breeding. This diversity ...

Dogs and humans have been companions for thousands of years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It hardly seems like a dainty teacup ...

We all have at least one friend that treats their dog like an actual human child. Scientists think you shouldn't be a hater: There’s 20,000 to 40,000 years of evolution causing them to behave that way ...

Origins of the dog: domestication and early history / JulieClutton-Brock -- Evolution of working dogs / Raymond Coppinger and Richard Schneider -- Genetic aspects of dog behaviour with particular ...