The domestication of dogs began at least 17,000 years ago, marking the first major interspecies relationship in human history ...

Angela Linn and Evelynn Combs Feb 2, 2025 Feb 2, 2025 In December, researchers from the UA Museum of the North’s (UAMN) department of archaeology published in Science Advances about a study that ...

A new study looks into the deep past of dogs. More than 3,000 years ago, in what is now Kazakhstan, six dogs were laid carefully in the ground. Were they beloved pets? Sacrifices, since they seem to ...

New research shows humans may have brought wolves to a remote island, fed them, and cared for them thousands of years ago.

A long-shared history links humans and dogs, a relationship that began more than 15,000 years ago when early wolves sought food and shelter near human settlements and gradually adapted to life ...

It gives new meaning to dog years. Various types of sled dogs have been used by humans across the Arctic for almost 10,000 years, but new research reveals one particular type to be the oldest ...

A team of genetics researchers has sequenced the genomes of Greenland sled dogs, or qimmeq (plural qimmit), both living and dead. Their results shed light on both the development of this breed and ...

For the human majority, dogs hold a special place in comparison with our relationships to other animal species. Scientific evidence suggests that dogs were the earliest animal domesticated by man. The ...

They're known as man's best friends, fur babies, pooches. But the most widely used word for these beloved animals — "dog" — is also a great linguistic mystery. "The most everyday, commonplace words ...

More than 3,000 years ago, in what is now Kazakhstan, six dogs were laid carefully in the ground. Were they beloved pets? Sacrifices, since they seem to have ritually arranged? No one can say for sure ...