From village dogs to toy poodles to mastiffs, dogs come in an astonishing array of shapes, colors and sizes. Today there are ...

Recent analysis has challenged long-held assumptions about the origins of canine diversity, revealing that dogs were already ...

Humans exhibit rapid, intense reactions to snakes and spiders, rooted in ancient survival instincts. Specific visual cues ...

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

Scientists have managed to pinpoint the time dogs began to look significantly different from each other in terms of skull ...

While the range of physical diversity dogs show is often thought to be the result of intense breeding over the last 200 years, a new study – based on tracing 50,000 years of canid skull evolution – ...

“We found that dogs were already remarkably diverse in their skull shapes and sizes more than 11,000 years ago — long before ...

Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period sparked an explosion of skeletal creativity. Salterella, a peculiar fossil, ...

The Omo-Turkana basin in Africa is home to a treasure trove of ancient human fossils and tools that span 300,000 years – today it is still yielding new discoveries about our species ...

Today, traces of Neanderthal DNA persist in modern humans, particularly those of European and Asian descent. These genetic ...

We may be witnessing the moment when our ancestors first defied a hostile world, using the same tools in the same place for ...

According to a statement released by the Spanish National Research Centre for Human Evolution (CENIEH), Ana Mateos and Jesús ...