Little Timmy, Brooke and Boo's DNA tests, provided by company Embark, came back as 49.1% Gray Wolf and 50.9% Czechoslovakian ...
Wolves and their domesticated counterparts – dogs – do not rely only on their snouts when searching for a meal. A new study shows that both animals are better able to find food when they see where ...
At least 15,000 years ago, dogs evolved from groups of gray wolves, leading theories suggest. But does that mean modern-day pooches are smarter than their canine ancestors? According to experts, the ...
They found that both dogs and wolves found more of the first five food caches more quickly and with less distance traveled if they had seen the food compared to scenarios where they didn’t observe a ...
Megan Callahan-Beckel has been working with gray wolves since she was 4 years old. Now the animal care coordinator at the Wildlife Science Center in Minnesota—where her mother, Peggy Callahan, is the ...
A recent New Yorker essay called "The Myth of the Alpha Wolf" by Rivka Galchen caught my attention and that of numerous people who emailed me about it. My purpose here is to clarify a number of points ...
I recently read an encyclopedic new book by Drs. Friederike Range and Sarah Marshall-Pescini titled Wolves and Dogs between Myth and Science. I was extremely impressed by their detailed discussions ...
New research shows humans may have brought wolves to a remote island, fed them, and cared for them thousands of years ago.
Scientists have uncovered ancient wolf remains on a small Baltic island where wolves could only have been brought by humans.
New evidence of wolves and humans living together on Swedish island points to likely prehistoric domestication ...
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Wolves were our pets before dogs

Remains on a small island in the Baltic Sea suggest that humans kept and cared for wolves for thousands of years before they ...
Wolves are awe-inspiring wild animals unfortunately ill-suited to life as domesticated pets. And while there are a few wolf hybrids, these breeds are tricky and ownership is tightly regulated. But ...