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

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by U.S. scientists, who were surprised to ...

Wolf-dog hybrids are bred by crossing domestic dogs with wolves, sometimes just a few generations back. They carry physical traits and instincts that set them far apart from standard breeds. These ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Audrey T. Lin, Smithsonian Institution and Logan Kistler, Smithsonian Institution (THE ...

Many dog owners may not be surprised to learn that most dogs still carry some wolf DNA in their genomes. Domestication has changed dogs dramatically from their wolf ancestors, but most do still have ...

The remarkable surge in genetic technology has now allowed us to look at dogs and dog breeds in a whole new way. We can not only determine the wild canine ancestral species from which our dogs were ...

Animal rescues often emphasize spaying and neutering your dogs, especially amid a massive overflow of dogs and puppies in shelters across the United States. When female dogs are in heat, they attract ...

Relations between dogs and people are so normal and pervasive as to pass almost unregarded. Yet viewed objectively, this ...