Like the latest iPhone model, new dog breeds drop all the time. In early 2025, the American Kennel Club officially announced the Danish-Swedish Farmdog as the 202nd recognized dog breed. It’s only the ...

Living alongside humans changed both how dogs behave and how they look. Research shows that domestic dogs developed a small facial muscle that helps them create the familiar “puppy dog eyes” ...

Where did dogs come from? That simple question is the subject of a scientific debate right now. In May, a team of scientists published a study pointing to East Asia as the place where dogs evolved ...

Dogs in Europe had been domesticated from wild wolves by at least 14,200 years ago, two new genetic studies suggest. The two studies are a “significant advance” in understanding how dogs evolved from ...

The gray wolf, also called the timber wolf, is the largest member of the canine family with fur ranging from gray to brown, black or white. Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology ...

Living alongside humans changed both how dogs behave and how they look. Research shows that domestic dogs developed a small facial muscle that helps them create the familiar “puppy dog eyes” ...