Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. While that chihuahua might seem about as similar to a wolf as a ...

Every family dog carries a long evolutionary story in its cells, one that traces back to gray wolves even if the animal on your couch looks more like a teddy bear than a predator. When people send off ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...

When scientists compared the DNA of thousands of dogs and wolves, they found the two species were not as separate as once thought. Nearly every dog, from Chihuahuas to huskies, carries traces of wolf ...

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 ...

Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A new study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...

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 ...

The story started in spring this year, when Guardians of the Haíɫzaqv Nation Indigenous community in British Columbia, Canada ...