Some dog owners like to feed their pets tidbits from the table – and this friendly habit may have had a role in the domestication of dogs at the end of the last Ice Age, scientists say.

Scientists have never been certain about how exactly wolves evolved into domesticated dogs, but a new study has just advanced an interesting theory. Researchers claim that, starting about 30,000 ...

According to the study, the initial phase of domestication, occurring between 30,000 and 15,000 years ago, could have been driven by natural selection favoring less aggressive wolves that were ...

Roughly 30,000 to 15,000 years ago, the first dogs emerged from gray wolves. Exactly when, where, and how this monumental event occurred isn’t known.

Ad Feedback. Wolf puppies, like domesticated dogs, love to play fetch ... Instead, it’s possible that this behavior can be traced back before wolves were domesticated into dogs.

Toward the end of the Ice Age, humans and wolves found themselves roaming together across endless icy planes in Eurasia. Which not only meant they both had to battle woolly mammoths, but also ...

Animal remains unearthed in Alaska give clues to how wolves were domesticated. By Alexander Nazaryan As the Late Pleistocene ice age drew to a close, people and wolves began to bond. From there ...

By Dr. John Koch Question: I know that modern dogs are descended from prehistoric wolves. My question is when and how were dogs domesticated from wolves? Answer: Some time ago, an archeological ...

It was originally believed the first domesticated wolves appeared around 15,000 years ago in the Middle East. New evidence, however, suggests it was much earlier than that.

However, the domestication of wolves into dogs was not a linear process but a dynamic interaction shaped by selective pressures through artificial selection and human socio-cultural dynamics. Early ...

While wolves and domesticated dogs are distantly related, selective breeding has obviously led to some major differences between the wild predator and their cousins.One similarity that has ...

Genomics researcher Anders Bergstrom and his colleagues recently sequenced the genomes of 27 dogs from archaeological sites scattered around Europe and Asia, ranging from 4,000 to 11,000 years old.