Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the ...

Most modern dog breeds have small amounts of wolf ancestry from long after dogs were domesticated, according to a new study. The wolf DNA isn't left over from when dogs and wolves diverged; instead, ...

Scientists are tracing back the history of dogs using the oldest genes from the species ever studied ...

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 US scientists, who were surprised to find ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...