As a result of an unprecedented legal act signed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, this October brings a literal unleashing of dogs to hunt the state's resident wolf population. Soon, GPS-collared dogs ...
Wolf DNA seems to have influenced the size, smelling power and even personality of modern dog breeds, scientists said.
Dogs and wolves living today derive from a shared ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears ...
A recent study revealed that a majority of modern-day dog breeds had close contact with wolves several thousand years ago ...
Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient ...
About two-thirds of modern dog breeds carry some wolf ancestry introduced within the past few thousand years.
The scientists found that 64.1% of modern breed dogs carry wolf ancestry due to genetic crossbreeding nearly 1,000 ...
Jeremy Koster and Andrew Noss say in “Hunting dogs and the extraction of wildlife as a resource,” in the new Oxford University Press book, Free-Ranging Dogs & Wildlife Conservation (2014),” edited by ...