Dogs were our friends and guardians thousands of years before the end of the last ice age, with new studies identifying a ...

Two studies published in Nature on March 25, 2026, have extracted and analyzed ancient DNA from more than 200 dog and wolf ...

A dog looking directly at a camera. “Ignore my annoying baby talk, but I love seeing her eyes dilate when I talk to her. It ...

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

Unlike the controlled environments of factories or warehouses, everyday communication in homes is filled with ambiguity that ...

Katharine Mershon examines how stories about human-dog relationships are actually very much about ourselves—​who's rescuing ...