New research shows humans may have brought wolves to a remote island, fed them, and cared for them thousands of years ago.

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient wolf remains on a small Baltic island where wolves could only have been brought by humans.

Who said it first, no one knows. But Frederick the Great, warrior ruler and enlightened despot of 18th-century Prussia, said it well. “The only, absolute and best friend a man has, in this selfish ...

New evidence of wolves and humans living together on Swedish island points to likely prehistoric domestication ...

Dogs today come in a mind- blowing array of shapes and sizes, but when did this diversity in canine forms begin? New research ...

How dogs and wolves are genetically linked Dogs evolved from an extinct population of gray wolves under human influences during the late Pleistocene, about 20,000 years ago. Although wolves and dogs ...

Dogs have been found to be able to understand and act on human gestures by nature. However, the ability to recognize human gestures is considered rare in the animal kingdom. A research team led by ...

About two-thirds of modern dog breeds carry some wolf ancestry introduced within the past few thousand years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Wolf bones unearthed on a tiny island in the Baltic Sea were ...

PARIS - 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 ...

Domestic dogs started developing into different sizes and shapes thousands of years ago rather than hundreds, a new study claims. Scientists at the University of Exeter have analysed hundreds of ...