Scientists have long known that the brains of modern wolves are larger than dogs, but it’s unclear when the impact of ...

In northern Italy, where there are fewer free-ranging dogs, wolf-dog hybrids are much rarer than in the central and southern ...

Where did dogs come from? That simple question is the subject of a scientific debate right now. In May, a team of scientists published a study pointing to East Asia as the place where dogs evolved ...

Dogs have long been known to have smaller brains than the wolves they descended from. But when they started to shrink has ...

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 ...

It has long been known that dogs have less between their ears than wolves, but now research has suggested their brains started to get smaller at least 5,000 years ago. Experts say the results offer ...

Popcorn Park Animal Refuge in New Jersey has welcomed Balto and Coyote, a bonded pair of wolf-dogs, marking its first wolf-heritage residents in over three decades. The animals require specialized ...

Many dog owners may not be surprised to learn that most dogs still carry some wolf DNA in their genomes. Domestication has changed dogs dramatically from their wolf ancestors, but most do still have ...

Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully emerged, according to a new study. Archaeologists found the remains, dated ...

Our best friends come in a fantastic array of shapes and sizes; a Borzoi looks nothing like a Boston terrier, except for a certain fundamental, ineffable (except to taxonomists) doggyness about them.