For thousands of years, dogs have been man’s best friend. When humans still lived primarily in hunter-gatherer societies, dogs were among the first domesticated animals. And as the millennia passed, ...

The bond between humans and dogs stretches back thousands of years — long before modern pets ever existed. At Clemson University, genetics expert Kelsey Witt Dillon is studying ancient dog DNA to ...

In her provocative new book, The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Dove Neanderthals to Extinction, Penn State paleoanthropologist Pat Shipman attributes the demise of Neanderthals around 40,000 ...

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.

Some dog owners like to feed their pets tidbits from the table -- and this friendly habit may have had a role in the domestication of dogs at the end of the last Ice Age, scientists say. Historically, ...

Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully emerged, according to a new study. Archaeologists found the remains, dated ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day canines carry a small amount of wolf genes. A surprising study reveals that there ...

Wolf-dog hybrids are growing far more common in Italy, raising scientists’ concerns for the future of the wolves Gennaro Tomma, bioGraphic About 47 percent of wolves in Italy are considered wolf-dog ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Eurasian wolf. Bildagentur Zoonar GmbH / Shutterstock Italy has seen a growing number of wolf-dog hybrids, raising concerns ...