Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the ...

Modern wolves and dogs both descend from an ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears. Iza Lyson/500px Prime via Getty Images Dogs were the first of any species that ...

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 ...

The staggering array of modern dog breeds is typically traced to the Victorian era. But half of all canine variation was in place roughly 10,000 years ago, a new study suggests. By Emily Anthes As a ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that have evolved to live ...