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

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

The scientists found that 64.1% of modern breed dogs carry wolf ancestry due to genetic crossbreeding nearly 1,000 ...

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

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

About two-thirds of modern dog breeds carry some wolf ancestry introduced within the past few thousand years.

There is a good chance that many of you watching right now have a dog somewhere nearby. But what do you actually know about where dogs come from? You're probably aware they evolved from wolves..but ...

Finally, Fido has a proper family tree. Genetic researchers have assembled the most definitive evolutionary tree of dogs using gene sequences from 161 modern breeds. The map of dog breeds and how they ...

They're such low-maintenance companions!

Mistreating a dog may come back to bite you. Scientists have long known that childhood abuse, neglect, and trauma can have ...