Dogs and wolves, despite sharing a common ancestor, differ in behavior, physiology, and genetics due to domestication. Wolves live in hierarchical packs, while dogs form flexible social structures, ...

Remains on a small island in the Baltic Sea suggest that humans kept and cared for wolves for thousands of years before they ...

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

Researchers used mathematical models to show wolves could have turned into dogs by scavenging near human settlements over 15,000 years. A recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal ...

A remarkable discovery on a remote Swedish island is reshaping what scientists know about early human–wolf relationships and ...

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

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 ...

DNA analysis, radiocarbon dating, and advanced measuring techniques are helping scientists learn where dogs came from and when they became our best friends. Our relationship with dogs goes back tens ...

Wolves and dogs share 99.9% of their DNA. Technically still the same species, they can also produce healthy offspring. But having said that, there’s no denying the physical difference between wolves ...

On July 3, just a couple days into Wisconsin’s hound training season, two hunting dogs were attacked by wolves on two separate occasions in the northern part of the state. One of the dogs, a ...

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 ...