Scientists don't know exactly how wolves were domesticated into early dogs, but it's possible that they domesticated themselves by choosing to coexist with humans so that, a new study finds, they ...

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A new study published in Animal Cognition suggests that while dogs appear more affectionate and submissive than wolves during greetings with humans, these differences may not be solely due to ...

Selection is based on breeding the ones most useful. They don't even need that knowledge. Keep & feed only the ones that are useful and not dangerous to the handler (for guard dogs a vicious reaction ...

Bones from the turn of the Holocene indicate that humans were feeding canines—including wolves and coyotes—fish over 10,000 years ago, Reading time 3 minutes Who let the dogs out? It remains unclear, ...

Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape appearing over 11,000 years ago. A massive global analysis of ancient skulls shows ...

It is not farfetched to say that dogs and people were made for each other, although how the partnership between these two vastly different species came about remains an enduring historical mystery. It ...

I want to begin this post with an apology and a thank-you to all my loyal readers who began with Dog’s Best Friend nine years ago, long before a pandemic ever entered our imagination, except for the ...

Researchers found "some dogs are better at certain things than others," Salomons explained.

I think he’s conflating tamed with domesticated. To me, a domesticated animal is one that can be socialized to humans such that you never have to worry about such a bite (in general, as there can ...