Flapjack and Mitzi—these two are the dogs from which all other dogs descended. Flapjack, a two-year-old Irish setter (technically, this was before setters, or Ireland), and Mitzi, a one-year-old ...

Eurasian gray wolves were the first animals to be domesticated, a process that began about 30,000 to 50,000 years ago when wolves slowly went from a wild existence to one dependent on humans. Today, ...

The "shared history" between humans and dogs "goes back 30,000 years", said Gerard De Groot in The Times. And for the vast majority of that time, the "interaction was mainly utilitarian". Dogs ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another. By Emily Anthes In the waning days of the ...