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

Dogs have been man’s best friend for a long, long time. The beloved animals were living alongside humans in western Eurasia around 14,000 to 16,000 years ago—before humans developed ...

According to researchers, modern dog genetic lineages must have been established by the Upper Palaeolithic, the final phase of the Old Stone Age, between 50,000 and 10,000 BP (Before Present). During ...

Two new studies suggest that genetically stable dogs were living among humans in Europe by about 14,000 years ago.

One dog, known from bones found at the Pinarbasi rock shelter site in Turkey used by ancient human hunter-gatherers, is about ...

Learn how DNA from 14,200-year-old dogs shows they lived in Europe before farming and traces their ancestry to eastern wolves ...

The oldest ancient dog genomes on record all come from a population that lived alongside Ice Age hunter-gatherers across ...

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

Bones unearthed at several sites show that dogs were widely distributed across West Eurasia by at least 14,000 years ago.

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

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 ...

Scientists have confirmed using full genome analysis that dogs were already living as human companions over 14,000 years ago.