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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Between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago, people in Alaska kept reinventing dogs with mixed results. The dogs that share our homes today are the descendants of a single group of wolves that lived in Siberia ...

Dogs first became “man’s best friend” at least 12,000 years ago, new research suggests. Indigenous people in the Americas began forming close relationships with the ancestors of today’s dogs around ...

Wolves and humans were early competitors that both hunted in packs for large prey, shared ecological niches, and could kill each other. Debate exists over the exact origin of domesticated dogs, but ...

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 ...

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Pets and livestock have long been selected based on traits such as friendliness, diet, and ease of management. But not every animal that could be useful ever got the spotlight. In the Americas, a ...

There are few things more joyful, if occasionally nerve-wracking, than having a pet in your home. And plenty of people agree.

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 ...