A new study finds that the wide range of domestic dog shapes and physical attributes we're familiar with today first started appearing thousands of years ago.

A new study reveals that the remarkable diversity in dog sizes and shapes began at least 11,000 years ago. By examining the ...

The staggering array of modern dog breeds is typically traced to the Victorian era. But half of all canine variation was in ...

While the range of physical diversity dogs show is often thought to be the result of intense breeding over the last 200 years, a new study – based on ...

Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have ...

Domestic dogs are among the most diverse mammals on the planet. From the tiny chihuahua to the towering great dane, the ...

From village dogs to toy poodles to mastiffs, dogs come in an astonishing array of shapes, colours and sizes. Today there are ...

Scientists have managed to pinpoint the time dogs began to look significantly different from each other in terms of skull ...

Dogs today come in a mind-blowing array of shapes and sizes, from the diminutive pug, Pekingese and Pomeranian to the grand ...

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