Wolf DNA seems to have influenced the size, smelling power and even personality of modern dog breeds, scientists said.
The scientists found that 64.1% of modern breed dogs carry wolf ancestry due to genetic crossbreeding nearly 1,000 ...
As a result of an unprecedented legal act signed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, this October brings a literal unleashing of dogs to hunt the state's resident wolf population. Soon, GPS-collared dogs ...
The two subspecies split about 20,000 years ago. But since then, they may have interbred more often than Smithsonian ...
Every family dog carries a long evolutionary story in its cells, one that traces back to gray wolves even if the animal on ...
In a peculiar twist of fate last week in northern Wisconsin, six dogs that were chasing after bears for hunters were attacked and killed by wolves. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources ...
Some massive breeds such as the St. Bernard completely lack wolf DNA, but the tiny Chihuahua retains detectable wolf ancestry ...
A team of researchers from the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History analyzed more than 2,700 genomes of dogs, wolves, and other canids from ...