Living alongside humans changed both how dogs behave and how they look. Research shows that domestic dogs developed a small ...

The oldest ancient dog genomes on record all come from a population that lived alongside Ice Age hunter-gatherers across ...

Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago.

Two studies published in Nature on March 25, 2026, have extracted and analyzed ancient DNA from more than 200 dog and wolf ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The endangered Mexican Gray wolf remains an ongoing conservation topic in Arizona, and during a tour by the Society of Environmental Journalists April 24, wolf advocates, wildlife ...

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 ...

Learn how DNA from 14,200-year-old dogs shows they lived in Europe before farming and traces their ancestry to eastern wolves ...

Scientists can’t paint a picture of exactly what the first dogs looked like, but think they resembled smaller wolves.