Humans are no strangers to sharing their food with their dogs: Look no further than the average American dining room. As it turns out, that’s been the case for millennia. In a study published today in the journal Science Advances, scientists were able to demonstrate that people and the ancestors of today’s dogs began forming […]
DELTA JUNCTION — On this rock outcrop 30 feet above the gray Tanana River and green hayfields cleared from the forest below, archaeologists have possibly found evidence of the canine companions of early Alaskans. Eight students and professionals are now troweling the floury tan soil of Hollembaek’s Hill to learn more about the distant past […]
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A study reported in the journal Science offers an enhanced view of the origins and ultimate fate of the first dogs in the Americas. The dogs were not domesticated North American wolves, as some have speculated, but likely followed their human counterparts over a land bridge that once connected North Asia and the Americas, […]