Ancient wolves lived with people on tiny Baltic island. Their bones show shared food and long contact that hints at early wolf management.
Among dogs without a history of purposeful crossbreeding, samples from two Grand Anglo-Francais Tricolore hounds led the way, with 5.7 percent and 4.7 percent wolf ancestry, respectively. These ...
Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A ...
A hunter in central New York shot a wild gray wolf, the first verified and documented case of the species south of the St.
Today’s wolves and dogs share a common ancestor. But a deeper look at their genes reveals that interbreeding since dogs were domesticated 20,000 years ago hasn’t been as rare as scientists assumed.
New research suggests that most modern dogs carry a small but detectable dose of wolf DNA acquired after domestication. Moreover, this lingering wolf ancestry has nudged traits from body size and ...
Remarkable new footage shows a wild gray wolf using a human crab trap with startling precision, challenging what we thought ...