Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully emerged, according to a new study. Archaeologists found the remains, dated ...

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

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

Wolves became dogs via cooperation and reciprocity rather than through competition with humans "I wrote this book to remind people that the wolves we often demonize and persecute through wildlife ...

Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea – a place where the animals could only have been brought by humans. The study, published in ...

In her provocative new book, The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Dove Neanderthals to Extinction, Penn State paleoanthropologist Pat Shipman attributes the demise of Neanderthals around 40,000 ...