Bones from the turn of the Holocene indicate that humans were feeding canines—including wolves and coyotes—fish over 10,000 years ago, Reading time 3 minutes Who let the dogs out? It remains unclear, ...

New research on 11,000-year-old dog skulls is forcing scientists to redraw the timeline of how wolves became our closest animal partners. Instead of a slow, recent march from generic village mutt to ...

In Tom Edison’s Shaggy Dog, a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Edison discovers that dogs are intellectually superior beings. They’re so smart, in fact, that the canines found the easiest possible ...

Dogs are the oldest domesticated animals. They are also the only animals that have been known to accompany humans in different environments and eras no matter the geographical location of the ...

There is a good reason why so many humans refer to dogs as man’s best friend. Humans domesticated dogs more than 11,000 years ago, before we even invented agriculture. Today dogs are popular as pets ...

Not so long ago, dogs were valued primarily for the jobs they performed. They hunted, herded livestock, and guarded property, which required them to have an active prey drive, boundless energy, and a ...

I recently read an encyclopedic new book by Drs. Friederike Range and Sarah Marshall-Pescini titled Wolves and Dogs between Myth and Science. I was extremely impressed by their detailed discussions ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...