Wolf DNA seems to have influenced the size, smelling power and even personality of modern dog breeds, scientists said.
Every family dog carries a long evolutionary story in its cells, one that traces back to gray wolves even if the animal on ...
When scientists compared the DNA of thousands of dogs and wolves, they found the two species were not as separate as once ...
The two subspecies split about 20,000 years ago. But since then, they may have interbred more often than Smithsonian ...
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 ...
Many dog owners may not be surprised to learn that most dogs still carry some wolf DNA in their genomes. Domestication has ...
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.
Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.