Mummified remains of two 14,000-year-old puppies, with their fur and stomach contents intact, may be wolf cubs, according to new research.

In other words, wolves could have naturally evolved into dogs, without human intervention, within the 15,000-year time period of the earlier domestication event.

There is no doubt that gray wolves were the ancestors of dogs. One controversial question is about the timing. Some authors claim that dogs were already domesticated about 30 to 40.000 years ago ...

Though Girdland-Flink’s research is on ancient wolves and dogs, he was not involved in the new study. But determining whether ancient remains like the Tumat Puppies are early domestic dogs, wild ...

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 ...

Past the agricultural revolution, there’s something of a sea-change in how dogs are found in the archaeological record. They ...

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.

Research has long indicated that all dogs, from prissy Pekingese to slobbering St. Bernards, are the domesticated descendants of wolves. But scientists have tussled for years over when and where ...