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 ...

That fluffy little dog trotting down the street might look like the most domesticated creature on the planet, but science says there's a very good chance it's carrying a piece of the wild inside it. A ...

Wolf-dog hybrids are bred by crossing domestic dogs with wolves, sometimes just a few generations back. They carry physical traits and instincts that set them far apart from standard breeds. These ...

Not every dog looks like a dog at first glance.Some have the face of a fox, others carry themselves like wolves, and a few ...

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 ...

Wolves have always carried a certain mystery around them. Strong, silent, and a little intimidating – they feel like they belong deep in forests, not backyards. But interestingly, some dogs look so ...

The remarkable surge in genetic technology has now allowed us to look at dogs and dog breeds in a whole new way. We can not only determine the wild canine ancestral species from which our dogs were ...

Eurasian gray wolves were the first animals to be domesticated, a process that began about 30,000 to 50,000 years ago when wolves slowly went from a wild existence to one dependent on humans. Today, ...