Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A ...

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

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

A recent study revealed that a majority of modern-day dog breeds had close contact with wolves several thousand years ago ...

Most modern dog breeds have small amounts of wolf ancestry from long after dogs were domesticated, according to a new study. The wolf DNA isn't left over from when dogs and wolves diverged; instead, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...