Scientists have never been certain about how exactly wolves evolved into domesticated dogs, but a new study has just advanced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Modern wolves and dogs both descend from an ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears. Iza Lyson ...

Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient genetic influence shows up in traits like body size, behavior, and ...

What’s furry, cute, and may have ancestral ties to ancient wolves? Possibly, your dog. Researchers at the New York-based American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

Parsifal is a feral dog from southern Italy being brought back into human society. My fellow Psychology Today blogger Marc Bekoff photographed him in Turin and calls him "one of the most amazing dogs" ...

Ancient wolf remains unearthed on a remote Swedish island suggest a more complex human-wolf relationship than previously understood. These wolves, living 3,000-5,000 years ago, likely couldn't have ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day canines carry a small amount of wolf genes. A surprising study reveals that there ...

Wolf-dog hybrids are growing far more common in Italy, raising scientists’ concerns for the future of the wolves Gennaro Tomma, bioGraphic About 47 percent of wolves in Italy are considered wolf-dog ...

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Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that have evolved to live ...