Dogs near Ukraine’s front lines are becoming more wolf-like as war filters survival traits, revealing rapid natural selection in action.

Dogs were domesticated around 11,000 years ago. Until recently, it was thought that breed diversity emerged in Victorian times. Recent studies of dog skulls have shown that diversity actually started ...

A new study shows ancient Maya communities transported live dogs over long distances and fed them maize-rich diets, revealing ...

Thousands of years ago, humans made a decision that would reshape the planet forever — they began domesticating animals. Starting with wolves that would become dogs, and stretching across millennia to ...

Many people have seen dogs fetch, but cats like to get into the game too. Despite their very different hunting and play ...

Canine cancer patients receiving a new form of immunotherapy lived longer or shorter depending on the composition of their microbiome, the community of organisms living in their gut. Results of the ...

When fingertips trace the surface of a bone that has survived thousands of years, a window through time gradually opens. Scenes of ancient hunts and faded memories of domestication, long eroded by the ...

A missing dog has been safely reunited with its owner after a kind-hearted Malaysian spotted it resting along the Ampang-Kuala Lumpur Elevated Highway (AKLEH) and stopped to help Sharing the encounter ...

Good boy gone rogue as dog wanders onto course during Olympic cross country skiing race.

The frigid wind off the Hudson River had teeth. Winter in New York chills one's social life. No one lingers, and small talk ...

A canine health startup called Loyal has now raised more than $250 million to develop drugs that could help dogs—and perhaps one day humans—live longer, healthier lives. The company on February 11 ...