"Dog is man's best friend ... they're not really going after salmon in the wild," said study co-author Ben Potter, an archaeologist with the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The researchers ...

Recent archaeological discoveries in Alaska suggest that the human ... "Behaviorally, they seem to be like dogs, as they ate salmon provided by people, but genetically, they're not related to ...

Zach Smith Humans likely fed salmon to the ancestors of modern dogs in Alaska some 12,000 years ago, according to a new paper published this month in the journal Science Advances. The findings ...

Between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago, people in Alaska kept reinventing ... consisted mostly of salmon, so it’s tempting to assume these were domesticated dogs. But their DNA reveals that all ...