Research suggests hunter-gatherers were feeding dogs and giving them ritual burials as early as the last ice age ...

Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago.

The remains of dogs from more than 14,000 years ago have been found in Turkey and the UK, revealing that domesticated animals ...

According to researchers, modern dog genetic lineages must have been established by the Upper Palaeolithic, the final phase ...

How early did humans stop seeing wolves only as rivals and start living alongside the animals that would become dogs? A small ...

The bond between humans and dogs didn’t start recently; it goes back at least 15,000 years, long before cities, before ...

The close relationship between humans and dogs has been ongoing for more than 14,000 years, a new study has discovered.

Some bones indicate that the hunter-gatherers of the time fed dogs fish. Their remains were also treated in similar ways to ...

"This means that by 15,000 years ago, dogs with very different ancestries already existed across Eurasia, from Somerset to ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

Evidence of some of the earliest dogs has been identified at two University of Liverpool/British Institute at Ankara archaeological excavation projects in central Anatolia, Turkey. Shedding new light ...

The bond between humans and dogs is one of nature's most enduring partnerships, but exactly when it began has long been a mystery. Now, a new study has turned back the clock. The study, titled "Dogs ...