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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Wolves, like dogs, also use play signals such as the bow to let others know they want to play rather than to dominate or mate with them. When they talk with one another about play, they share their ...

Learn how DNA from 14,200-year-old dogs shows they lived in Europe before farming and traces their ancestry to eastern wolves. Early humans in Europe weren’t the only ones moving across the landscape.