Wolves and dogs might share a genetic history, but a wolf is typically larger and fiercer than a household pet. With that in ...

Dogs in Europe had been domesticated from wild wolves by at least 14,200 years ago, two new genetic studies suggest. The two studies are a “significant advance” in understanding how dogs evolved from ...

Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago. Two new genetic analyses combed the archaeological record for domestic dogs ...

Dogs brains shrank by around half at certain stages during their domestication, a study shows. Early ancestral dogs still had ...

Although wolves and domestic dogs live very different lives today, they still share a remarkable number of social behaviours shaped by common ancestry. Many everyday actions seen in pet dogs, such as ...

Between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago, a now-extinct population of wolves evolved into dogs, with a little help from humans. Today—at least in Italy, which hosts one of Europe’s largest wolf populations ...

There’s no doubt. The greyish coat, the effortless trot over soft snow, the way it stops, stalks, then strikes, picking off a marmot and ending it with one bite: it’s a wolf. That’s what I’m watching ...