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Nearly half of Italy's wolves are part dog now, thanks to hybridization. Is that a threat to the species?
Between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago, a now-extinct population of wolves evolved into dogs, with a little help from humans.
As even irregular readers of this blog know, I have an abiding fascination with the question of how the wolf became the dog, or in the parlance of text messaging W2D. Why should the consummate ...
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Your dog might be more wolf than you think
New research reveals that most modern dogs still carry small but significant traces of wolf DNA, shaping traits from size to ...
Where did dogs come from? That simple question is the subject of a scientific debate right now. In May, a team of scientists published a study pointing to East Asia as the place where dogs evolved ...
Scientists have long known that the brains of modern wolves are larger than dogs, but it’s unclear when the impact of ...
The hybrids are taking over Italy, raising scientists’ concerns for the future of the country’s purebred wolves.
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 ...
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