There is a photograph from 1954 that still manages to stop people cold. A large dog stands in a Soviet laboratory, and grafted onto its neck is the head, shoulders, and forelegs of a second, smaller ...

Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago. Two new genetic analyses combed the archaeological record for domestic dogs ...

From village dogs to toy poodles to mastiffs, dogs come in an astonishing array of shapes, colours and sizes. Today there are estimated to be about 700 million dogs living with or around humans. To ...