The two subspecies split about 20,000 years ago. But since then, they may have interbred more often than Smithsonian ...

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

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

Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient ...

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 ...

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

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

Genomic analysis of more than 2,700 dog and wolf genomes shows that most modern dogs carry small traces of post-domestication ...

Republicans in Congress are trying to remove protections for gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act and block courts ...

A new study shows that diversity in dog breeds came around 11,00 years ago, much earlier than the Victorian period.

This research found that Czechoslovakian and Saarloos wolfdogs have the most detectable wolf DNA (up to 40%). The great Anglo ...