A new study has revealed that dogs began their physical transformation from wolves during the Middle Stone Age - several centuries earlier than previously thought. In the 21st century, it is difficult ...

Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully emerged, according to a new study. Archaeologists found the remains, dated ...

New analysis of 11,000-year-old dog skulls is forcing scientists to redraw the timeline of how wolves became the animals that now sleep on our sofas. Instead of a slow, uniform shift from wolf to dog, ...

Dogs — in their many shapes and sizes — are considered one of the most diverse species of animal on the planet. Most of these breeds are thought to have emerged during the 19th-century Victorian era.