Some bonds are written in grand gestures, but the bond with a dog is inked in the tiny, everyday moments. It's in the quiet ...

Behind the friendly tone of ChatGPT and Gemini lurks a creature with three heads. One speaks legalese, one whispers moral comfort, and the last cleans every sentence until it shines sterile. Together, ...

There’s a town in southeastern Kansas where your retirement dollars stretch so far they might as well be made of elastic. Independence, Kansas, sits quietly doing its thing while retirees from pricier ...

Two new studies suggest the story of dogs and their relationship with humans is older and more complex than once thought.

Distinct domestic dog types could have started developing thousands of years before modern breeding, archaeologists find.

The staggering array of modern dog breeds is typically traced to the Victorian era. But half of all canine variation was in ...

A surprising diversity of dog shapes and sizes evolved long before the Victorians began making modern breeds Modern dog breeds come in a mind-boggling array of shapes and sizes—from Chihuahua to Great ...

Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have ...

“A reduction in skull size for dogs is first detectable between 9,700–8,700 years ago, while an increase in size variance ...

A new study finds that the wide range of domestic dog shapes and physical attributes we're familiar with today first started appearing thousands of years ago.