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 ...

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

Today’s wolves and dogs share a common ancestor. But a deeper look at their genes reveals that interbreeding since dogs were domesticated 20,000 years ago hasn’t been as rare as scientists assumed.

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 ...

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 ...

Their new study, published in PNAS, examined 2,693 genomes from modern and ancient dogs and wolves. It shows that 64% of dog ...

A new study has shown that almost two thirds of modern dog breeds carry traces of wolf DNA, which could influence their size, ...

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.

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