Today’s Reading Room focuses on an academic study on the wild wolf genes in most dogs’ DNA. The authors say “dogs are not ...

New DNA research shows that two-thirds of today's domesticated dogs, from hounds to shepherds to chihuahuas, have wolf DNA in ...

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

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

New studies of canine genetics shed light on the diversity of dogs and our longstanding, still-evolving relationship to them.

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute, but beware – they probably have some wolf in them. Almost two-thirds of all dog breeds do! | TAG24 ...

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.

Indian landscapes are endowed with many surprises, and animals are also a part of them, as there are many such creatures that ...

U.S. scientists analyzed the DNA of numerous modern-day dog breeds, and found that two-thirds of pet dogs have traceable wolf ...

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

A large genomic study of more than 2,700 canids reveals that most modern dogs retain low but measurable levels of wolf ancestry from ancient post-domestication gene flow. These wolf-derived regions ...