The oldest ancient dog genomes on record all come from a population that lived alongside Ice Age hunter-gatherers across ...

The mystery predator that killed more than 120 sheep in Eastern Montana last year was a "domestic" wolf and not a wild wolf from the Northern Rocky Mountains, state officials said Wednesday. DNA ...

The mystery predator that killed more than 120 sheep in Eastern Montana last year was a “domestic” wolf and not a wild wolf from the Northern Rocky Mountains, state officials said Wednesday. DNA ...

Wolves are already known as powerful apex predators, but their true size often surprises people. While many imagine them as ...

Bones unearthed at several sites show that dogs were widely distributed across West Eurasia by at least 14,000 years ago.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. From their wolf ancestors to today’s sweet, loyal ...

It is proposed that the exact process of the domestication of wolves by our species isn’t clear, so here’s my take on how it might have gone(9 August, p 34). Any tribe consists not only of adults, but ...

Although wolves and domestic dogs live very different lives today, they still share a remarkable number of social behaviours shaped by common ancestry. Many everyday actions seen in pet dogs, such as ...

Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and how they might have traded them around the world. From Pomeranians to poodles, Saint ...