A new analysis of ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from Neanderthal fossils suggests researchers may need to revisit when ...

University of Oxford researchers have helped produce what they describe as the earliest genetic evidence for domestic dogs, ...

A new study looks into the deep past of dogs. More than 3,000 years ago, in what is now Kazakhstan, six dogs were laid carefully in the ground. Were they beloved pets? Sacrifices, since they seem to ...

Ancient DNA shows humans and dogs may have lived together during the Ice Age, much earlier than scientists believed. The finding pushes the bond back by 5,000 years and suggests dogs helped early ...