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 ...

People often think this variety began with Victorian dog breeders. But a study of more than 600 ancient and modern dog and wolf skulls shows that much of today’s dog diversity actually started ...

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

Dogs today come in a mind-blowing array of shapes and sizes, from the diminutive pug, Pekingese and Pomeranian to the grand ...

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

The most gentle dog breeds are calm and compassionate, and seem to innately know when they need to pump the brakes. These ...

The American Kennel Club now officially recognizes the Danish-Swedish farmdog, a new dog breed that will compete in the ...

Have you ever walked past a dog so massive that you had to do a double take, wondering how much it eats or where it even ...

“It’s a real source of pride for Martigny to welcome the new Barryland,” says Florian Rard, communications manager at Valais ...

Each year, nearly 2,000 of the country’s top American Kennel Club–sanctioned dogs compete across 205 breeds from seven groups ...

Dogs are the new show-off trophy: aspiring entrepreneurs/professionals score over peers by having one as a pet ...