One dog, known from bones found at the Pinarbasi rock shelter site in Turkey used by ancient human hunter-gatherers, is about ...

The oldest ancient dog genomes on record all come from a population that lived alongside Ice Age hunter-gatherers across ...

Two studies published in Nature on March 25, 2026, have extracted and analyzed ancient DNA from more than 200 dog and wolf ...

They examined ancient genes from the remains of over 200 dogs and wolves. The oldest dated back to about 15,800 years ago, ...

Scientists have confirmed using full genome analysis that dogs were already living as human companions over 14,000 years ago.

Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago.

According to researchers, modern dog genetic lineages must have been established by the Upper Palaeolithic, the final phase of the Old Stone Age, between 50,000 and 10,000 BP (Before Present). During ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mexican gray wolf M1477 on Jan. 26, 2024, after being released south of Hannagan Meadow, Arizona. M1477, an 8-year-old male and ...

A jawbone found in a Somerset cave rewrites the story of when and how dogs became our best friends.

Scientists think dogs descended from an ancient population of gray wolves somewhere in Europe or Asia. Tens of thousands of ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The endangered Mexican Gray wolf remains an ongoing conservation topic in Arizona, and during a tour by the Society of Environmental Journalists April 24, wolf advocates, wildlife ...