Wolf DNA seems to have influenced the size, smelling power and even personality of modern dog breeds, scientists said.

The wolf DNA isn't left over from when dogs and wolves diverged; instead, it most likely came from interbreeding in the past ...

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

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

Dogs and wolves living today derive from a shared ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears ...

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

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

A new study shows that diversity in dog breeds came around 11,00 years ago, much earlier than the Victorian period.

The data showed that a dog with a similar weight to a wolf had a brain volume about three-quarters the size of the wolf’s.

In 2024, a ‘smug’ pug from North Carolina named Vito won Best in Show. Since the show started airing on NBC, a variety of ...