What makes this discovery stand out is not just its age, but its clarity. Earlier finds hinted at early domestication, but ...

Learn how DNA from 14,200-year-old dogs shows they lived in Europe before farming and traces their ancestry to eastern wolves ...

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

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

The oldest ancient dog genomes on record all come from a population that lived alongside Ice Age hunter-gatherers across ...

The dog, descended from an ancient wolf population separate from modern wolves, was the first animal domesticated by people, ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

Using the oldest dog genes studied so far, scientists are finding more evidence that our furry friends have been our ...

When were dogs born? A new study sought to finally answer that age-old, burning ...

They examined ancient genes from the remains of over 200 dogs and wolves. The oldest dated back to about 15,800 years ago, ...

Scientists have confirmed using full genome analysis that dogs were already living as human companions over 14,000 years ago.

Some bones indicate that the hunter-gatherers of the time fed dogs fish. Their remains were also treated in similar ways to ...