The Dogs of Chernobyl Were Left for Dead, But They Adapted

When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to ...

Dogs became man's best friend far earlier than thought, scientists find

A jawbone found in a Somerset cave rewrites the story of when and how dogs became our best friends.

Humans have been hanging out with dogs for even longer than we thought

Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago.

Europe’s first domesticated dogs arrived over 3,000 years earlier than we thought

Geneticists are pushing back the timeline of when people first domesticated dogs in Europe. Using the DNA from over 200 ...