An international team of scientists has used ancient DNA samples to elucidate the population history of dogs. The results show that dogs had already diverged into at least five distinct lineages by ...

Meet Dogor, the prehistoric puppy buried in Russia’s permafrost for the last 18,000 years. The good boy, believed to have died at two months old, was discovered last year in frozen mud in Yakutsk, a ...

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, ...

Recent analysis has challenged long-held assumptions about the origins of canine diversity, revealing that dogs were already diverse 11,000 years before the advent of modern breeding. This diversity ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (StudyFinds.org) – How did dogs get those irresistible puppy dog eyes? It turns out it took a lot of effort by our ancestors. Researchers believe humans selectively bred the first ...

For hundreds of years, there was one way to study human prehistory: Put on a pith helmet, go to a desert in Africa or the Middle East, dig up some skeletons and artifacts, and make inferences based on ...

YAKUTSK, Russia — Russian scientists have shown off a prehistoric dog or wolf puppy, thought to be 18,000 years old, found in permafrost in the country's Far East. Discovered last year in a lump of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (StudyFinds.org) – How did ...