If you’ve ever been curious about what dingoes truly are and where they come from, you’ve landed on the right page. These wild dogs have been around Australia for thousands of years, but their story ...

The tiny, feisty Chihuahua is a relic of sorts. As European settlers arrived in the Americas 500 years ago, their dogs quickly replaced native canines, obliterating detectable genetic traces of ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is ... My colleagues and I hit on ...

Greenlandic sled dogs, also known as Qimmit, play while resting. Markus Trienke via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-SA-2.0 Man’s best friend has been our faithful companion for thousands of years.

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...

Sometimes, however, the reasons dogs and cats seem to be seeing ghosts might be rather mundane.

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...