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

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

Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient ...

Every household dog, from a towering Great Dane to a trembling toy breed, traces back to wild wolves. New genetic work shows ...

The researchers also devised a new way to calculate a dog’s age, but it’s arguably more complicated than simply multiplying ...

New research suggests that most modern dogs carry a small but detectable dose of wolf DNA acquired after domestication.

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

Many dog owners may not be surprised to learn that most dogs still carry some wolf DNA in their genomes. Domestication has ...

U.S. scientists analyzed the DNA of numerous modern-day dog breeds, and found that two-thirds of pet dogs have traceable wolf ...

A study analyzed the DNA of feral dogs living near Chernobyl, compared the animals to others living 10 miles away, and found ...