In Dover, city officials voted unanimously on an ordinance that would require muzzles or restraints for “vicious dogs” in ...

Distinct domestic dog types could have started developing thousands of years before modern breeding, archaeologists find.

We often attribute this diversity to a relatively recent phenomenon: the Victorian kennel clubs that first emerged around 200 years ago. These clubs are usually credited with formalising the selective ...

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

Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have ...

A surprising diversity of dog shapes and sizes evolved long before the Victorians began making modern breeds Modern dog breeds come in a mind-boggling array of shapes and sizes—from Chihuahua to Great ...

An archaeological study has revealed when domestic dogs first began to show the remarkable diversity that characterizes them ...

These findings contradict the notion that such diversity was mainly a relatively new phenomenon driven by selective breeding ...

Dogs were domesticated by humans at some point during the last 40,000 years, with some of the most acute analyses saying it ...

Rottweilers are one of those dog breeds that would take a bullet for you without thinking twice. They don’t bark aimlessly or act out of fear. Instead, they assess, decide, and defend. Their loyalty ...