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.

If things had gone differently on August 2, 2019, he could have been the state’s first documented instance of a wolf injuring a human in modern times. Fortunately, he grabbed a gun before running out ...

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.

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 ...

Although many questions remain, the new data will be a valuable jumping-off point for scientists who are still trying to solve the many mysteries of wolf evolution and dog domestication ...

Scientists—and plenty of doting dog owners—have long wondered when and where wolves began their evolution to become ... some important insights into wolf genetics. More than 80 researchers ...

While domesticated dogs show a substantial decrease in brain size compared to their wild ancestor, the gray wolf (Canis lupus ... to constrain brain size evolution due to the high energy demands ...

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 ...

The secret to making a great wolf man movie — and you gotta pinky ... and his fittingly hangdog performance makes his de-evolution particularly tragic. Even when Blake loses the ability to ...