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

About two-thirds of modern dog breeds carry some wolf ancestry introduced within the past few thousand years.

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

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

A recent study revealed that a majority of modern-day dog breeds had close contact with wolves several thousand years ago ...

Every household dog, from a towering Great Dane to a trembling toy breed, traces back to wild wolves. New genetic work shows ...

A team of researchers from the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ...

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

The scientists found that 64.1% of modern breed dogs carry wolf ancestry due to genetic crossbreeding nearly 1,000 ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that have evolved to live ...

Scientists didn’t expect this twist in evolution.

When most people picture ancient dogs, they imagine something wolf-like—sleek, long-snouted, and built for the hunt. But a major new archaeological study reveals a very different story. Thousands of ...