Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As per CNN Style, during the peak of the Second Opium War in 1860, British and French troops climbed the 15-foot walls of ...

The dogs we know and love today are members of our families, but it took thousands of years for them to settle into that role ...

Ancient remains in Turkey from 15,800 years ago have been confirmed as coming from a dog, the earliest one ever found. Genetic evidence also reveals that our best friends were already widely ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. International Dog Day is observed as a ...

Flapjack and Mitzi—these two are the dogs from which all other dogs descended. Flapjack, a two-year-old Irish setter (technically, this was before setters, or Ireland), and Mitzi, a one-year-old ...

They're known as man's best friends, fur babies, pooches. But the most widely used word for these beloved animals — "dog" — is also a great linguistic mystery. "The most everyday, commonplace words ...