For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to herding and companionship. This deliberate shaping of traits has resulted in ...

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

How did sled-dogs evolve? In a recent June issue of one of the two most prestigious scientific journals, (i.e. Science,) a group of 35 researchers published an article arguing that "Arctic-adapted ...

Biologists have shown evidence of a kind of “copycat” evolution between extremely short-faced breeds of cats and dogs. An unusual museum collection in Bern, Switzerland, houses the largest scientific ...

Modern dog breeds come in a mind-boggling array of shapes and sizes—from Chihuahua to Great Dane, corgi to greyhound, pug to German shepherd. In fact, the domestic dog, Canis familiaris, shows more ...