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 ...

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 ...

A white arctic wolf stands alert against a blurred green forest backdrop, its expression calm yet observant. The detailed fur ...

New research suggests that most modern dogs carry a small but detectable dose of wolf DNA acquired after domestication. Moreover, this lingering wolf ancestry has nudged traits from body size and ...

Except that the research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS), found that just two-thirds of ...

Among dogs without a history of purposeful crossbreeding, samples from two Grand Anglo-Francais Tricolore hounds led the way, with 5.7 percent and 4.7 percent wolf ancestry, respectively. These ...

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

New research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History reveals that the majority of dogs living today have low but detectable ...

New research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History reveals that the majority of dogs living today have low but detectable ...

Fear of being alone with our own thoughts, as much as fear of missing out, prevents most of us from disconnecting from our ...