High in the mountains, Kazakh herders have lived in careful balance with wolves for centuries. Now a celebrated tradition has ...

When Game of Thrones premiered in 2011, one of its most unforgettable images appeared almost immediately: a litter of ...

Dogs today come in a mind- blowing array of shapes and sizes, but when did this diversity in canine forms begin? New research ...

When it comes to man's best friend, there is a dog out there for everyone and any dog lover will always have a preference for ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient wolf remains on a small Baltic island where wolves could only have been brought by humans.

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would represent a serious danger to nomads and herders, who ironically often ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A Lewis and Clark District Court judge has ruled that Montana’s current wolf hunting and trapping ...

Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A new study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...

Scroll social media for five minutes and you’ll find a thousand versions of the same claim: dogs who “talk back,” sit like humans, shadow their owners from room to room, and seem more interested in ...

New research suggests that most modern dogs carry a small but detectable dose of wolf DNA acquired after domestication. Moreover, this lingering wolf ancestry has nudged traits from body size and ...

What’s furry, cute, and may have ancestral ties to ancient wolves? Possibly, your dog. Researchers at the New York-based American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...