A new study suggests dogs began to diversify about 11,000 years earlier than we thought. Plus, a long-running experiment to ...

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

Wolves and humans were early competitors that both hunted in packs for large prey, shared ecological niches, and could kill each other. Debate exists over the exact origin of domesticated dogs, but ...

There’s a lot we don’t know about how and when dogs were first domesticated. But we do know that the process made dogs very ...

The gray wolf, also called the timber wolf, is the largest member of the canine family with fur ranging from gray to brown, black or white. Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology ...

The remarkable surge in genetic technology has now allowed us to look at dogs and dog breeds in a whole new way. We can not only determine the wild canine ancestral species from which our dogs were ...