A new study of ancient dog DNA shows that people and dogs traveled together across Eurasia for at least 10,000 years.

From village dogs to toy poodles to mastiffs, dogs come in an astonishing array of shapes, colors and sizes. Today there are estimated to be about 700 million dogs living with or around humans. To ...

Among dogs without a history of purposeful crossbreeding, samples from two Grand Anglo-Francais Tricolore hounds led the way, ...

Long before written history, early families moving across Eurasia kept dogs close as companions and helpers. A sweeping new study offers the clearest evidence yet that the history of dogs is ...

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

The scientists found that 64.1% of modern breed dogs carry wolf ancestry due to genetic crossbreeding nearly 1,000 ...

The wolf DNA isn't left over from when dogs and wolves diverged; instead, it most likely came from interbreeding in the past ...

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

U.S. scientists analyzed the DNA of numerous modern-day dog breeds, and found that two-thirds of pet dogs have traceable wolf ...

On average, terriers, gundogs, and scent hounds have the least wolf ancestry. While some large guardian dogs have high wolf ancestry, others including the Neapolitan mastiff, bullmastiff, and the St.

Sail to the North Pole in style aboard Le Commandant Charcot, currently the world’s only passenger vessel able to reach the North Pole. “It’s like going on a five-star hotel that’s capable of going ...