From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

Marcel Ravidat, an 18-year-old student, was exploring the woods in Montignac in Dordogne, southern France, when his dog named ...

Relations between dogs and people are so normal and pervasive as to pass almost unregarded. Yet viewed objectively, this ...

Historians once believed human beings created dogs by catching wolf pups and breeding the tamest ones together, but that would have been risky business. Wolves don’t tame easily, and it would have ...

Ancient DNA is finally putting hard numbers on a mystery that has trailed humanity for millennia: when our most familiar ...

Researchers across the globe put on their sleuthing hats this year to provide answers to questions that have lingered from ...

Bob Dylan has paid a poetic and deeply personal tribute to Willie Nelson, offering one of the most vivid portraits ever ...

All year long, these moments captivated the public, demonstrated dangerous trends, and pushed research and innovation forward ...

Archaeologists working in a Swedish bog have uncovered a remarkably intact dog laid to rest beside a finely worked dagger, a ...

Greenland: a crucial player in the Arctic chess game, where local culture meets global interests amidst changing climates.

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...