Poodles of all sorts—Standard Poodles, Toy Poodles, Miniature Poodles—are some of the healthiest, especially for purebred ...

Some massive breeds such as the St. Bernard completely lack wolf DNA, but the tiny Chihuahua retains detectable wolf ancestry ...

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

How much influence did humans really have on the enormous variety of today’s dog breeds? An analysis of dog skulls from the last 50,000 years brings surprising insights to light: As early as 11,000 ...

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

It seems the diversity of domestic dogs first began developing thousands of years before humans started intensely shaping modern breeds in the 19th century—challenging what we thought about canine ...

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

Modern dog breeds come in a mind-boggling array of shapes and sizes—from Chihuahua to Great Dane, corgi to greyhound, pug to German shepherd. In fact, the domestic dog, Canis familiaris, shows more ...

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

On average, terriers, gundogs, and scent hounds have the least wolf ancestry. While some large guardian dogs have high wolf ancestry, others including the Neapolitan mastiff, bullmastiff, and the St.

The wolf DNA isn't left over from when dogs and wolves diverged; instead, it most likely came from interbreeding in the past ...