Ah, Europe. The culture. The history. The dogs! Europe boasts some of the world’s oldest dog breeds. Sure, there’s evidence of domesticated dogs in China thought to be 15,000 years old. But many of ...

An international team of researchers led by the Francis Crick Institute, the University of East Anglia and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has found that dogs were domesticated ...

Europe’s new cat and dog welfare rules could reshape how pets are bred, sold, identified, and advertised across the EU. The ...

Dogs in Europe had been domesticated from wild wolves by at least 14,200 years ago, two new genetic studies suggest. The two studies are a “significant advance” in understanding how dogs evolved from ...

The possibility of European origins of dogs have been largely dismissed in recent years, primarily because geneticists studying breed formation routinely reported that nearly all European breeds were ...