“A reduction in skull size for dogs is first detectable between 9,700–8,700 years ago, while an increase in size variance ...

Distinct domestic dog types could have started developing thousands of years before modern breeding, archaeologists find.

“We found that dogs were already remarkably diverse in their skull shapes and sizes more than 11,000 years ago — long before ...

Dr Carly Ameen from the University of Exeter, another lead researcher on this project, explained to BBC News that almost half ...