Biologist and archaeologist Allowen Evin, of CNRS, and her colleagues compared the size and shape of 643 skulls from dogs and wolves: 158 from modern dogs, 86 from modern wolves, and 391 from ...

London, Ont., resident Meg Jarvis is teaching her dog, Ruby, to communicate by using a set of special buttons. Each button ...

A wireless button that dogs can push with their nose has been launched by the Open University to help people control their ...

And, according to its inventors, that includes letting your dog pop the kettle on to make you a cuppa. Users plug their ...

The staggering array of modern dog breeds is typically traced to the Victorian era. But half of all canine variation was in ...

Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have ...

A surprising diversity of dog shapes and sizes evolved long before the Victorians began making modern breeds Modern dog breeds come in a mind-boggling array of shapes and sizes—from Chihuahua to Great ...

Two new studies suggest the story of dogs and their relationship with humans is older and more complex than once thought.

We often attribute this diversity to a relatively recent phenomenon: the Victorian kennel clubs that first emerged around 200 years ago. These clubs are usually credited with formalising the selective ...

Distinct domestic dog types could have started developing thousands of years before modern breeding, archaeologists find.

Anthropic believes AI models will increasingly reach into the physical world. To understand where things are headed, it asked ...