Ancient dog skulls and DNA reveal a surprising diversity in shape and size over 10,000 years ago, long before modern breeds.

Biologist and archaeologist Allowen Evin, of CNRS, and her colleagues compared the size and shape of 643 skulls from dogs and wolves: 158 from modern dogs, 86 from modern wolves, and 391 from ...

Advances in sequencing ancient DNA have revealed that over millenia, people have moved into new regions in successive waves, ...

I’ve seen other dogs doing a similar dance on our daily walks in the neighborhood, which raises the question: Why do dogs ...

The staggering array of modern dog breeds is typically traced to the Victorian era. But half of all canine variation was in ...

Two new studies suggest the story of dogs and their relationship with humans is older and more complex than once thought.

It happened around 6:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, on Tabernacle Road in the Mulberry area, and the 70-year-old ended up in a ...

As a young professional, Lauren Haynes has moved a number of times in the past decade for her job - from South Jersey to ...

Dogs thrive in calm environments. Sure, some dogs love to go crazy and play rough with certain people. However, the majority ...

We often applaud animals for learning tricks. But until recently, we rarely acknowledged that significant intelligence ...

Petey the donkey has a very special relationship with his barnmate, Luna. She is a blind horse. Petey has taken it upon ...

The explosion of populations east of the Mississippi was made possible by logging and the slaughter of wolves.