Explore how wolf DNA in dogs shapes behavior and instincts. Learn about the genetic link between modern dogs and their ...

That isn’t usually supposed to happen.

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by US scientists, who were surprised to find ...

Many dog owners may not be surprised to learn that most dogs still carry some wolf DNA in their genomes. Domestication has changed dogs dramatically from their wolf ancestors, but most do still have ...

Why dogs follow their owners everywhere isn’t just affection, it’s an ancient wolf survival drive that domestication redirected but never erased.

Wolves are among the largest members of the canine family, dwarfing coyotes and many domestic dog breeds in both size and ...

A new study from the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, showed that most modern dogs carry small but detectable traces of post-domestication ...

The remarkable surge in genetic technology has now allowed us to look at dogs and dog breeds in a whole new way. We can not only determine the wild canine ancestral species from which our dogs were ...

In her provocative new book, The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Dove Neanderthals to Extinction, Penn State paleoanthropologist Pat Shipman attributes the demise of Neanderthals around 40,000 ...