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

Using the oldest dog genes studied so far, scientists are finding more evidence that our furry friends have been our ...

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

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

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

The findings challenge prevailing domestication timelines in anthropology.

Dogs were our friends and guardians thousands of years before the end of the last ice age, with new studies identifying a ...

Two new studies suggest that genetically stable dogs were living among humans in Europe by about 14,000 years ago.

Research suggests hunter-gatherers were feeding dogs and giving them ritual burials as early as the last ice age ...

Learn how DNA from 14,200-year-old dogs shows they lived in Europe before farming and traces their ancestry to eastern wolves.