Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wolves and dogs don’t normally breed in the wild, largely because wolves are so territorial. But an exception has been found.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Modern wolves and dogs both descend from an ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears. Iza Lyson ...

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 ...

Many dog owners may not be surprised to learn that most dogs still carry some wolf DNA in their genomes. Domestication has changed dogs dramatically from their wolf ancestors, but most do still have ...

As even irregular readers of this blog know, I have an abiding fascination with the question of how the wolf became the dog, or in the parlance of text messaging W2D. Why should the consummate ...

Bernard Monnaapula, my guide at Gomoti Plains, and I have been trailing a male leopard across the Okavango Delta for more than an hour when we realize it has led us to an unexpected prize: African ...

Wolves and dogs don’t normally breed in the wild, largely because wolves are so territorial. But an exception has been found. While wild dog-wolf hybrids had previously only been suspected through ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that have evolved to live ...

The gray wolf, also called the timber wolf, is the largest member of the canine family with fur ranging from gray to brown, black or white. Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology ...