Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient ...

The two subspecies split about 20,000 years ago. But since then, they may have interbred more often than Smithsonian ...

A recent study revealed that a majority of modern-day dog breeds had close contact with wolves several thousand years ago ...

New studies of canine genetics shed light on the diversity of dogs and our longstanding, still-evolving relationship to them.

Their new study, published in PNAS, examined 2,693 genomes from modern and ancient dogs and wolves. It shows that 64% of dog ...

Dogs and wolves living today derive from a shared ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears ...

About two-thirds of modern dog breeds carry some wolf ancestry introduced within the past few thousand years.

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by U.S. scientists, who were surprised to ...

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 ...

A recent study reveals how many modern-day dog breeds still have traceable wolf DNA U.S. scientists found that two-thirds of dog breeds have DNA evidence of recent wolf ancestry While Chihuahuas ...

Genomic analysis of more than 2,700 dog and wolf genomes shows that most modern dogs carry small traces of post-domestication ...