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

The wolf DNA isn't left over from when dogs and wolves diverged; instead, it most likely came from interbreeding in the past ...

The scientists found that 64.1% of modern breed dogs carry wolf ancestry due to genetic crossbreeding nearly 1,000 ...

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

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

Every family dog carries a long evolutionary story in its cells, one that traces back to gray wolves even if the animal on ...

New studies of canine genetics shed light on the diversity of dogs and our longstanding, still-evolving relationship to them.

Dogs evolved from gray wolves, but scientists debate exactly where, when and how many times dogs were domesticated. Ancient DNA evidence suggests that domestication happened twice, in eastern and ...

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A new study of ancient dog DNA shows that people and dogs traveled together across Eurasia for at least 10,000 years.

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