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 ...

Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of genetics researchers has sequenced the genomes of Greenland sled dogs, or qimmeq (plural qimmit), both living and dead.

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would represent a serious danger to nomads and herders, who ironically often ...

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 ...

There’s no shortage of human history to take in at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. But how many human visitors delve into the parallel history of dogs? Dogs have been part of the Fort ...