The Dogs of 8,000 B.C. Were Amazingly Diverse

The staggering array of modern dog breeds is typically traced to the Victorian era. But half of all canine variation was in ...
Morningstar

The Secret to Dogs' Popularity: the Brain of a Wolf Pup

ESPOO, Finland, March 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A deeper understanding of dog behavior makes life easier and more enjoyable for dogs and people alike. One of the keys to dogs' minds is knowing that in ...
Psychology Today

The Importance of Difference in Studying Animal Cognition

Studies of animal ethology began long ago, but today’s popular animal cognition books largely began with Stanley Coren in 1994, the year he published The Intelligence of Dogs. Coren had been a highly ...
IFLScience

Evolution, Domestication, And A Lot Of Very Good Boys: How Wolves Became Dogs

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Dogs came in a wide range of sizes and shapes long before modern breeds

Biologist and archaeologist Allowen Evin, of CNRS, and her colleagues compared the size and shape of 643 skulls from dogs and wolves: 158 from modern dogs, 86 from modern wolves, and 391 from ...
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How age and head shape affect dogs' olfactory brain networks

A new brain imaging study from the ELTE NAP Canine Brain Research group has revealed that age and brain shape affect how strongly dogs' olfactory brain regions are connected. The researchers used ...