Burial remains from 800-2,000 years ago hint that the First Australians may have kept the continent’s famous canine species as pets. By Franz Lidz This article is part of our Pets special section on ...

A trio of researchers, Adam Brumm, Mietje Germonpré, and Loukas Koungoulos, has proposed that the dingo and its relationship to Aboriginal foraging communities in Australia can serve as a model for ...

Now, a new study brings us closer to understanding where the dingo fits in with other canines. In the recent study, which appears in the journal Science, the authors use genetic evidence to show that ...

400-year-old female dingo skull from Skull Cave, Augusta, Western Australia. DNA from fossilised dingo remains going back 2746 years compared with modern dingoes’ Dingos arrived in Australia more than ...

New research shows that Australia’s dingoes and modern day dogs have less in common with each other than once presumed. Researchers studied the ancient DNA remains of dingoes around the continent and ...

The Australian dingo’s genome is substantially different from modern dog breeds, suggesting the canines have never been domesticated in the past, a detailed analysis reveals. The dingo is a type of ...

A landmark study of ancient dingo DNA revealed that the distribution of modern dingoes across Australia, including those on K’gari, pre-dates European colonisation and interventions like the ...

CANBERRA, Australia -- Aborigines had dingoes as companions for thousands of years, but modern Australians are debating whether these unique wild dogs should be kept as household pets. After all, the ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Aborigines had dingoes as companions for thousands of years, but modern Australians are debating whether these unique wild dogs should be kept as household pets. After all, ...