More than 3,000 years ago, in what is now Kazakhstan, six dogs were laid carefully in the ground. Were they beloved pets? Sacrifices, since they seem to have ritually arranged? No one can say for sure ...

In Tom Edison’s Shaggy Dog, a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Edison discovers that dogs are intellectually superior beings. They’re so smart, in fact, that the canines found the easiest possible ...

Previous scientific studies have indicated that North American dog lineages were replaced with European ones between 1492 and the present day. To better understand the timing of this replacement, ...

The dogs we know and love today are members of our families, but it took thousands of years for them to settle into that role. As the first domesticated species, dogs originated 15,000-30,000 years ...