A recent study published in Nature shows that early dogs in Europe were not just widespread, but also travelled alongside ...

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

Some bones indicate that the hunter-gatherers of the time fed dogs fish. Their remains were also treated in similar ways to ...

According to researchers, modern dog genetic lineages must have been established by the Upper Palaeolithic, the final phase ...

Two new ancient DNA studies suggest that domesticated dogs were widespread in western Eurasia more than 14,000 years ago ...

Genetic analysis of canid remains from a rock shelter in central Türkiye has identified what researchers describe as the earliest known domestic dog, dating to approximately 15,800 years ago. The ...

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

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

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...