It’s no secret that dogs used to be wolves – a once-wild species domesticated over generations until it became humanity’s best and most understanding friend. But the precise route from point A to ...

Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea – a place where the animals could only have been brought by humans. The study, published in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man hugging his dog (photo credit: SHUTTERSTOCK) The dog, descended from an ancient wolf population separate from modern wolves, ...

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 ...

Two ancient wolf pups found entombed in Siberian permafrost more than a decade ago are revealing new stories, thanks to rich DNA clues preserved inside their bodies. In a first, researchers found a ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another. By Emily Anthes In the waning days of the ...