Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully ...

New research shows humans may have brought wolves to a remote island, fed them, and cared for them thousands of years ago.

Relations between dogs and people are so normal and pervasive as to pass almost unregarded. Yet viewed objectively, this ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...

Dogs are genetically most similar to ancient Siberian wolves, but they are not direct ancestors and plenty of questions remain Dr Anders Bergström and colleagues analysed 72 genomes from ancient ...

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 ...

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

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"Yay, you came home!" The joy is palpable. A swiftly wagging tail, a tongue lick on your face, maybe touching you with front paws. This happy scene meets you almost daily – if you are a wolf parent in ...

Wolves are wild animals with a strong, lean build, while dogs are domesticated animals with a wider variety of sizes and shapes. Wolves are generally larger and more muscular with a narrower chest and ...

The story started in spring this year, when Guardians of the Haíɫzaqv Nation Indigenous community in British Columbia, Canada ...