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

Ancient wolves lived with people on tiny Baltic island. Their bones show shared food and long contact that hints at early ...

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

On a small island in the Baltic Sea, a cache of ancient wolf bones is reshaping how I think about the earliest encounters ...

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

A wolf was filmed pulling bait out of a submerged crab trap — with some experts howling with glee that it could be the first ...

Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea—a place where the ...

“This caught our attention because there is no evidence in the archaeological record that wolves ever lived on these islands, ...

Wolves are returning across Europe—but not to the UK and Ireland, where public support is lukewarm at best. Ecologists point ...

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.

In addition to increasing carcass counts, wolves decrease reproduction rates, weaning weights, calf health and human ...