New DNA research shows that two-thirds of today's domesticated dogs, from hounds to shepherds to chihuahuas, have wolf DNA in ...

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

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

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

“Tibetan Spaniels are the ‘little lions’ of the Buddhist monasteries, where they guarded the walls the world below and ...

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

Referring to dogs as “man’s best friend” is more than just hyperbole – canines have been invaluable companions throughout ...

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

Ancient wolves lived with people on tiny Baltic island. Their bones show shared food and long contact that hints at early ...

On the northern edge of Ukraine, inside the 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned Chornobyl (commonly ...

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

New research suggests that most modern dogs carry a small but detectable dose of wolf DNA acquired after domestication.