Today’s wolves and dogs share a common ancestor. But a deeper look at their genes reveals that interbreeding since dogs were ...

Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient ...

Their new study, published in PNAS, examined 2,693 genomes from modern and ancient dogs and wolves. It shows that 64% of dog ...

Genomic analysis of more than 2,700 dog and wolf genomes shows that most modern dogs carry small traces of post-domestication ...

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 U.S. scientists, who were surprised to ...

A new study shows that diversity in dog breeds came around 11,00 years ago, much earlier than the Victorian period.

Many dog owners may not be surprised to learn that most dogs still carry some wolf DNA in their genomes. Domestication has ...

Ancient wolves lived with people on tiny Baltic island. Their bones show shared food and long contact that hints at early ...

The two subspecies split about 20,000 years ago. But since then, they may have interbred more often than Smithsonian ...

New research suggests that most modern dogs carry a small but detectable dose of wolf DNA acquired after domestication.

A new video shows wolves may be smarter than we think. Are they smart enough to use tools? And are they getting smarter?

This is the fourth part of Mongabay’s series on the expanding wolf population in California. Read Part 1,  Part 2 and Part 3.