Tweeting wolf: Olympian’s video of “wolf” in the hallway was Jimmy Kimmel hoax
With help from an Olympic luger, Twitter and a dog who is at least part wolf, Jimmy Kimmel has once again put one over on the news media. Then again, fooling the news media has a very low degree of...
View ArticleStudy says dogs go back no more than 12,000 years
A new study has a bone to pick with earlier researchers who concluded the domesticated dog has been around for 30,000 years. New 3D analysis of skulls that had been identified as two of the earliest...
View ArticleIf not for dogs, we’d all be Neanderthals
There’s no question humans played a major — you could even say heavy-handed — role in the evolution of dogs. But might dogs and their predecessors have played an equally significant role in our’s? A...
View ArticleWhy dogs are smarter than wolves
An Oregon State University scientist’s study, published yesterday, is drawing a lot of attention for concluding (as scientific studies often do) the obvious: The longer dogs live with us, the more...
View ArticleDid greedy moms fuel domestication of dog?
Some researchers are suggesting that selfish mama dogs may have played a role in the early domestication of the species by keeping the good food to themselves, as opposed to sharing it with their pups....
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