Despite the diversity of domestic dogs, these animals share an evolutionary history and behavioral traits. The oldest fossil that scientists agree came from a dog, rather than a wolf, comes from a ...

The dog, Canis familiaris, is a direct descendent of the gray wolf, Canis lupus: In other words, dogs as we know them are domesticated wolves. Not only their behavior changed; domestic dogs are ...

Brian Hare, an evolutionary biologist and author at Duke University, has spent the last 25 years studying animal evolution ... sweet dog you love started out as this: a wild, predatory wolf.

Dogs are one of humankind's greatest historical mysteries. Nobody is quite sure where they came from, but a new analysis of ancient wolf DNA points ... wolves shows evolution in real time With ...

When a wild wolf and a domestic dog formed a bond and raised pups together, researchers were shocked. Their unusual parenting taught scientists more about instinct, survival, and canine cooperation.

Roughly 30,000 to 15,000 years ago, the first dogs ... the evolution of red and timber wolves in North America, Sacks said. However, he added, the paper’s evidence for two sources of wolf ...

For one thing, the wolf was domesticated at a ... long enough to evolve into the domestic dog? The short version is that we often think of evolution as being the survival of the fittest, where ...

and their evolution. They traced a particular gene involved in the development of head and jaw bones, which is still present in almost every dog and wolf today. The team doesn't know why this ...

After days or months or generations or centuries, a wolf curled up at a human’s feet. Maybe got its belly rubbed. That was the first dog. As far as we can tell, dogs are the first animals that ...