The "wolf-type animals" which were later identified as Alsatian dogs, were walking around the Station Lane area of Preston at ...

Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A ...

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

I captured an unforgettable moment with my wolf-like dog as we explored the wild together. Against the backdrop of a stunning ...

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.

Many dog owners may not be surprised to learn that most dogs still carry some wolf DNA in their genomes. Domestication has ...

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

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

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

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

New research suggests that most modern dogs carry a small but detectable dose of wolf DNA acquired after domestication.

A new study shows that diversity in dog breeds came around 11,00 years ago, much earlier than the Victorian period.