The origins of modern dogs have long puzzled scientists. A team of American researchers recently shed new light on this ...

A team of mathematicians and statisticians from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, the University of Tennessee and ...

The dog, Canis familiaris, is a direct descendent of the gray wolf, Canis lupus: In other words, dogs as we know them are domesticated wolves. Not only their behavior changed; domestic dogs are ...

They may have been drawn to the discarded remains from ancient human meals, and a new model shows tame wolves could have ...

What the findings do suggest, however, is that “the proto-domestication hypothesis cannot be rejected on the basis of time ...

Living harmoniously with animals can be facilitated by teaching humans to accept their wild neighbors and tap into the ...