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 ...

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 ...

New research reveals that most modern dogs still carry small but significant traces of wolf DNA, shaping traits from size to ...

What’s furry, cute, and may have ancestral ties to ancient wolves? Possibly, your dog. Researchers at the New York-based American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

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 ...

Two Ice Age wolf pups once thought to be early dogs have been identified as wild wolves, thanks to detailed DNA and chemical analysis. Surprisingly, their last meals included woolly rhinoceros meat—an ...

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 ...