A beagle in the U.K. has sniffed out a leg bone from a woolly rhino that died 250,000 years ago. Four-year-old Crystal has been trained to sniff out fossils and the remains of prehistoric creatures by ...

Bones from the turn of the Holocene indicate that humans were feeding canines—including wolves and coyotes—fish over 10,000 years ago, Reading time 3 minutes Who let the dogs out? It remains unclear, ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (StudyFinds.org) – How did dogs get those irresistible puppy dog eyes? It turns out it took a lot of effort by our ancestors. Researchers believe humans selectively bred the first ...

An international team of scientists has used ancient DNA samples to elucidate the population history of dogs. The results show that dogs had already diverged into at least five distinct lineages by ...

The medieval Georgian village of Dmanisi is a mecca for paleoanthropology. It holds the oldest known records of human ancestors outside of Africa, shedding light on how the hominin Homo erectus lived ...

Meet Dogor, the prehistoric puppy buried in Russia’s permafrost for the last 18,000 years. The good boy, believed to have died at two months old, was discovered last year in frozen mud in Yakutsk, a ...