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A study published in Nature on March 25, 2026, has identified the oldest genetic evidence for domestic dogs in Europe and what is now Turkiye, pushing back the confirmed timeline for dog domestication ...

Learn how DNA from 14,200-year-old dogs shows they lived in Europe before farming and traces their ancestry to eastern wolves ...

Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully emerged, according to a new study. Archaeologists found the remains, dated ...

For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to herding and companionship. This deliberate shaping of traits has resulted in ...

Watch a wolf documentary for a few minutes, then look at a French Bulldog snoring on someone’s couch. It almost feels impossible that they share the same ancestry. And yet they do. Every Chihuahua, ...

What’s furry, cute, and may have ancestral ties to ancient wolves? Possibly, your dog. Researchers at the New York-based American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

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 ...

The tiny, fluffy Chihuahua shuffling past you on the street may be part wolf. According to a new study led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian's National Museum ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. From their wolf ancestors to today’s sweet, loyal ...

Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A new study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...