Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chihuahuas have about 0.2 percent wolf ancestry, according to a new study. While that chihuahua might seem about as similar to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remains on a small island in the Baltic Sea suggest that humans kept and cared for wolves for thousands of years before they ...

Between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago, people in Alaska kept reinventing dogs with mixed results. The dogs that share our homes today are the descendants of a single group of wolves that lived in Siberia ...

When did wolf become dog? It's a debated question and central to a new study presenting what appears to be the earliest evidence of the human-dog relationship in the Americas. It comes from the 12,000 ...

Remains on a small island in the Baltic Sea suggest that humans kept and cared for wolves for thousands of years before they domesticated dogs. Archaeologists unearthed two 3,000 to 5,000-year-old ...