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

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

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

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

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

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, ...

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

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

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 ...

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.