For thousands of years, dogs have been man’s best friend. When humans still lived primarily in hunter-gatherer societies, dogs were among the first domesticated animals. And as the millennia passed, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remains on a small island in the Baltic Sea suggest that humans kept and cared for wolves for thousands of years before they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wolves and dogs don't normally breed in the wild, largely because wolves are so territorial. But an exception has been found.

Getting things right in the name of science: The truth matters Over the past week a large number of people have sent me information about two recent essays, one called "The World Is Full of Dogs ...

There are about 1 billion dogs in the world, hundreds of breeds, uncountable mixes. But all these animals share a common ancestor, the wolf. Scientists continue to debate when and where dogs and ...

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 ...

Learn how DNA from 14,200-year-old dogs shows they lived in Europe before farming and traces their ancestry to eastern wolves. Early humans in Europe weren’t the only ones moving across the landscape.

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 ...

As the One Ear wolf pack establishes a heavy presence near his family’s four-generation cattle ranch in North Park, Adam VanValkenburg estimates that he has spent hundreds of hours this summer just ...

Shepherds in the Veluwe region have come up with a novel solution to deter wolf attacks by hiring Italian mountain dogs to ...