As a result of an unprecedented legal act signed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, this October brings a literal unleashing of dogs to hunt the state's resident wolf population. Soon, GPS-collared dogs ...

Wolf hunters can use dogs to hunt wolves during the 2013 season, a Dane County judge ruled Friday, but he threw out state rules that allow the use of wolves in the wild to train hunting dogs. Dane ...

DNA analysis, radiocarbon dating, and advanced measuring techniques are helping scientists learn where dogs came from and when they became our best friends. Our relationship with dogs goes back tens ...

Who said it first, no one knows. But Frederick the Great, warrior ruler and enlightened despot of 18th-century Prussia, said it well. “The only, absolute and best friend a man has, in this selfish ...

Modern wolves and dogs both descend from an ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears. Iza Lyson/500px Prime via Getty Images Dogs were the first of any species that ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that ...