Long before written history, early families moving across Eurasia kept dogs close as companions and helpers. A sweeping new study offers the clearest evidence yet that the history of dogs is ...

A new study looks into the deep past of dogs. 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 ...

A team of genetics researchers has sequenced the genomes of Greenland sled dogs, or qimmeq (plural qimmit), both living and dead. Their results shed light on both the development of this breed and ...

A millennium-long story about Greenland is written in the genes of the island’s sled dogs. A new genomic analysis, published July 10 in Science, suggests that humans (and their sled dogs) arrived in ...

It gives new meaning to dog years. Various types of sled dogs have been used by humans across the Arctic for almost 10,000 years, but new research reveals one particular type to be the oldest ...

From village dogs to toy poodles to mastiffs, dogs come in an astonishing array of shapes, colors and sizes. Today there are estimated to be about 700 million dogs living with or around humans. To ...

There’s no shortage of human history to take in at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. But how many human visitors delve into the parallel history of dogs? Dogs have been part of the Fort ...