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

Wolf DNA seems to have influenced the size, smelling power and even personality of modern dog breeds, scientists said.

A video has revealed never-before-seen behaviors in wolves that could mark the first case of tool use in a wild member of the ...

Every family dog carries a long evolutionary story in its cells, one that traces back to gray wolves even if the animal on ...

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

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

Scientists find wolf DNA in most modern dog breeds, revealing widespread ancestry that shaped size, behavior and adaptation.

Most modern dogs carry traces of wolf ancestry that subtly influence their behavior, appearance, and environmental adaptations.

High-wolf-content dogs, for instance, appear more suspicious of strangers and territorial, while low wolf-content dogs appear ...

New studies of canine genetics shed light on the diversity of dogs and our longstanding, still-evolving relationship to them.

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 ...

A wolf was caught on camera displaying behavior never seen before in wild canids, members of the dog family, as it appeared ...