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DNA Reveals the Secret History of Dogs

More than 3,000 years ago, in what is now Kazakhstan, six dogs were laid carefully in the ground. Were they beloved pets? Sacrifices, since they seem to have ritually arranged? No one can say for sure ...
WRAL

The history of dog food and nutrition, from hunting to the raw food movement

Compared to the projected $82 billion dog food market Hypercube Insights forecasts by 2026, the origins of the domesticated dog's diet are quite humble. Around 20,000 years ago, early hunter-gatherers ...
WFLA News Channel 8

The Mutual Evolution of Dogs and Humans: How we changed each other forever

The domestication of dogs began around 15,000 years ago, when wolves first started to be domesticated by humans. It is believed that early humans tamed wolves and eventually bred them to create the ...
THE WEEK

Collared by Chris Pearson: a 'fascinating' history of dogs

The "shared history" between humans and dogs "goes back 30,000 years", said Gerard De Groot in The Times. And for the vast majority of that time, the "interaction was mainly utilitarian". Dogs ...
The New York Times

Is There a Little Wolf in Your Chihuahua?

New studies of canine genetics shed light on the diversity of dogs and our longstanding, still-evolving relationship to them. Tasha, the O-Gene.Credit...PBH Images, via Alamy Supported by By Emily ...