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 ...

The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, arriving roughly 2000 years ago and not because of the ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

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

A large genomic study of more than 2,700 canids reveals that most modern dogs retain low but measurable levels of wolf ...

Dingoes are no ordinary dogs. They trace their roots back to an ancient Asian lineage and made their way to Australia more ...

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