About two-thirds of modern dog breeds carry some wolf ancestry introduced within the past few thousand years.

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

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

A recent study revealed that a majority of modern-day dog breeds had close contact with wolves several thousand years ago ...

A team of researchers from the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ...

The scientists found that 64.1% of modern breed dogs carry wolf ancestry due to genetic crossbreeding nearly 1,000 ...

Learn more about how ancient wolf DNA is still found in modern dogs, and how it’s shaped those breeds.

New studies of canine genetics shed light on the diversity of dogs and our longstanding, still-evolving relationship to them.

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that have evolved to live ...

Many dog owners may not be surprised to learn that most dogs still carry some wolf DNA in their genomes. Domestication has ...

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

For centuries, the wild spirit and profound beauty of wolves have captured the human imagination. These apex predators are admired for their intelligence, strength, and social structures. If you’re ...