A newly released study sheds light on a subset of these patterns, unexpectedly leading to new questions about long-held tenets of dog evolution. The question of when these changes arose surprised ...

Languages: English. A study published by Nature Ecology & Evolution shows that the distinctive coat patterns we recognize in today's favorite dog breeds aren't actually due to mutation and ...

While the hundreds of modern dog breeds across the world come with distinctive colour patterns, many of these variations were not in fact the result of careful breeding by humans, as previous ...