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” ...

"Perhaps, dogs (and other nonhuman animals) are already ahead of us in terms of their relationships with other members of the ...

Outbreaks of violence between chimpanzees have sparked fierce debate online about the origins of war in humans ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our ...

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The discovery of the oldest ever dog DNA suggests they have been our best friends for nearly 16,000 years—5,000 years earlier ...

If one thinks of the intensive artificial selection of dogs as a form of genetic engineering, humans surely engineered dogs for a wide variety of traits as they chose characteristics that satisfied ...

A new study finds natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10,000 years, driven by farming, disease ...

The first time the placebo effect really got under my skin was when I read that roughly one-third of people with irritable ...

Scientists have developed a new bulldog breathing treatment that reduces airway problems with a single injection, avoiding ...

A study published in Nature on March 25, 2026, has identified the oldest genetic evidence for domestic dogs in Europe and what is now Turkiye, pushing back the confirmed timeline for dog domestication ...