Archaeological evidence shows ancient Thracians consumed dog meat 2,500 years ago during ritual feasts as part of social ...

Long before written history, early families moving across Eurasia kept dogs close as companions and helpers. A sweeping new study offers the clearest evidence yet that the history of dogs is ...

Zooarchaeologist Stella Nikolova examined dog remains from across Bulgaria’s Iron Age (roughly 5th–1st centuries BC). At Pistiros, she reported that nearly 20% of the examined dog bones had cut marks ...

Learn how heartworm disease became widespread in dogs, reflecting an evolutionary history that spans back to ancient times.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The history of dogs has been intertwined, since ancient times, with that of the humans who domesticated them. But how far back does that history go in the Americas, and which route did ...

Thanks to the dedication of researchers like archeologists and zoologists, we now know that dogs and humans have lived side by side for at least 15 thousand years. The earliest remains of a ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Jessica Yung of Short Wave about carnivorous squirrels, the history of life on Earth, and new insights into the relationship between people and dogs.