The bond between humans and dogs goes back thousands of years. Scientists are now studying ancient dog DNA to find out how it ...

Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully emerged, according to a new study. Archaeologists found the remains, dated ...

Wolves in Colorado are a problem for some ranchers. They're hoping a map created by dogs might be able to help protect their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wolves and dogs don't normally breed in the wild, largely because wolves are so territorial. But an exception has been found.

MAN’S best friend may be a very old friend indeed. An analysis of a bone from a newly identified ancient wolf species suggests that dogs may have split from wolves as early as 40,000 years ago. Now ...

Dogs are no better than wolves at picking up on human cues. That’s the conclusion of animal psychologists who have compared the ability of the wolves and dogs to understand human hand signals. When ...

As the One Ear wolf pack establishes a heavy presence near his family’s four-generation cattle ranch in North Park, Adam ...

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 US scientists, who were surprised to find ...

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 ...