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 ...

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 ...

Parsifal is a feral dog from southern Italy being brought back into human society. My fellow Psychology Today blogger Marc Bekoff photographed him in Turin and calls him "one of the most amazing dogs" ...

New research reveals that most modern dogs carry small but significant traces of wolf DNA, inherited long after domestication began. These genetic remnants influence traits like body size, sense of ...

A recent study reveals that dogs' brains started shrinking at least 5,000 years ago, offering insights into their ...

Wolf-dog hybrids are bred by crossing domestic dogs with wolves, sometimes just a few generations back. They carry physical traits and instincts that set them far apart from standard breeds. These ...

Brian Hare began studying dog intelligence as an undergraduate at Emory University in the 1990s, after realizing that Oreo, his Labrador retriever, had a remarkable ability. Unlike other animals, even ...

An important difference between dogs and wolves in how they relate to humans has been demonstrated to be the result of genetics rather than life experience. Jason Goldman, in "The Thoughtful Animal," ...