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

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

The two subspecies split about 20,000 years ago. But since then, they may have interbred more often than Smithsonian ...

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

Dogs and wolves living today derive from a shared ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears ...

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

Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient ...

On average, terriers, gundogs, and scent hounds have the least wolf ancestry. While some large guardian dogs have high wolf ancestry, others including the Neapolitan mastiff, bullmastiff, and the St.

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

When scientists compared the DNA of thousands of dogs and wolves, they found the two species were not as separate as once ...

Many dog owners may not be surprised to learn that most dogs still carry some wolf DNA in their genomes. Domestication has ...

The data showed that a dog with a similar weight to a wolf had a brain volume about three-quarters the size of the wolf’s.