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 ...

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

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

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

There are more than 200 different breeds taking part in the Westminster dog show... how did dogs get so diverse?

The mitochondrial genome was used because of earlier work by Vilà that showed the nuclear genomes of dogs and wolves to be too similar to study their molecular evolution. On the other hand ...