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 ...

From village dogs to toy poodles to mastiffs, dogs come in an astonishing array of shapes, colors and sizes. Today there are estimated to be about 700 million dogs living with or around humans. To ...

Dogs have been part of human societies across Eurasia for at least 20,000 years, accompanying us through many social and cultural upheavals. A new study by an international team, published in the ...

Sometimes a dog’s story hits you in the chest before you even realize you’re holding your breath. That’s what happens the ...

To get around that, a team of researchers recently did the largest gene/behavior association study within a single dog breed.

Wolf DNA seems to have influenced the size, smelling power and even personality of modern dog breeds, scientists said.