Dogs were the first animals to be domesticated, with evidence suggesting they were tamed about 15,000 years ago. But the history behind how the four-legged creatures went from wild wolves to pampered pets remains hazy, scientists say.
“It’s a puzzle,” said Greger Larson, a professor of evolutionary genomics in the archaeology department at the University of Oxford in England. “Rather than thinking about it as an event or a single overnight incidence, it’s a long-term
