In northern Italy, where there are fewer free-ranging dogs, wolf-dog hybrids are much rarer than in the central and southern ...

Dogs’ brains shrank by around half at certain stages during their domestication, a study shows. Early ancestral dogs still ...

Dogs have long been known to have smaller brains than the wolves they descended from. But when they started to shrink has ...

Where did dogs come from? That simple question is the subject of a scientific debate right now. In May, a team of scientists published a study pointing to East Asia as the place where dogs evolved ...

Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully emerged, according to a new study. Archaeologists found the remains, dated ...

Ancient wolves and the dawn of dogs New research is uncovering surprising twists in the long history between humans and ...

Popcorn Park Animal Refuge in New Jersey has welcomed Balto and Coyote, a bonded pair of wolf-dogs, marking its first wolf-heritage residents in over three decades. The animals require specialized ...

It has long been known that dogs have less between their ears than wolves, but now research has suggested their brains started to get smaller at least 5,000 years ago. Experts say the results offer ...

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 ...

Two well-preserved ice age “puppies” found in Northern Siberia may not be dogs at all, according to new research. Still covered in fur and naturally preserved in ice for thousands of years, the “Tumat ...

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 ...