A stray dog bred with a wild wolf—and created a staggering hybrid

That isn’t usually supposed to happen.
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How Dogs Developed Their Unique Traits From Wolves

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, ...

Why Does Your Dog Follow You Everywhere? A Biologist Explains ‘Velcro Dog’ Behavior

Why dogs follow their owners everywhere isn’t just affection, it’s an ancient wolf survival drive that domestication ...

5,000-year-old wolves on a tiny Baltic island suggest prehistoric people may have fed, moved, and managed them long before dogs fully emerged

Ancient wolf remains unearthed on a remote Swedish island suggest a more complex human-wolf relationship than previously ...
Psychology Today

How Much Wolf Is in Your Dog's Behavior?

The remarkable surge in genetic technology has now allowed us to look at dogs and dog breeds in a whole new way. We can not only determine the wild canine ancestral species from which our dogs were ...
Discover Wildlife

10 smallest wild dogs on the planet, from one that can climb trees like a cat to a cutie that looks like a little bear

You may think of wolves, coyotes and jackals when you think of wild dogs, but there are some tiny wild dogs out there. Here ...
Psychology Today

Did Humans and Wolf Dogs Make Neanderthals Perish?

In her provocative new book, The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Dove Neanderthals to Extinction, Penn State paleoanthropologist Pat Shipman attributes the demise of Neanderthals around 40,000 ...