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 ...

Modern dog breeds come in a mind-boggling array of shapes and sizes—from Chihuahua to Great Dane, corgi to greyhound, pug to ...

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 ...

An archaeological study has revealed when domestic dogs first began to show the remarkable diversity that characterizes them ...

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 ...

“A reduction in skull size for dogs is first detectable between 9,700–8,700 years ago, while an increase in size variance ...