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 U.S. scientists, who were surprised to ...

Wolf-dog hybrids are bred by crossing domestic dogs with wolves, sometimes just a few generations back. They carry physical traits and instincts that set them far apart from standard breeds. These ...

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 ...

DENTON, Mont. -- An animal previously believed to be a wolf-dog hybrid is actually just a wolf, a DNA test revealed. "The lab compared the animal's DNA with thousands of other DNA samples from wolves, ...

Parsifal is a feral dog from southern Italy being brought back into human society. My fellow Psychology Today blogger Marc Bekoff photographed him in Turin and calls him "one of the most amazing dogs" ...

NEW YORK — Using the oldest dog genes studied so far, scientists are finding more evidence that our furry friends have been our companions for thousands of years. Scientists think dogs descended from ...

Brian Hare began studying dog intelligence as an undergraduate at Emory University in the 1990s, after realizing that Oreo, his Labrador retriever, had a remarkable ability. Unlike other animals, even ...

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 ...

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