Wolf-dog hybrids are growing far more common in Italy, raising scientists’ concerns for the future of the wolves ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: There are wolves that look like dogs, and dogs that appear suspiciously like wolves. For most, this is just a symptom of the fact that dogs are ...

New research reveals that most modern dogs still carry small but significant traces of wolf DNA, shaping traits from size to ...

The hybrids are taking over Italy, raising scientists’ concerns for the future of the country’s purebred wolves.

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 ...

"We will initially grow the pack through assisted reproduction." ...

Research offers insights into domestication of dogs but it remains unclear why they ended up with smaller brains than wolves ...

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 ...