Mayflower colonist John Goodman was out for a walk around Plymouth Colony with a spaniel, one of the two dogs that had also ...

For thousands of years, dogs have been man’s best friend. When humans still lived primarily in hunter-gatherer societies, dogs were among the first domesticated animals. And as the millennia passed, ...

Although wolves and domestic dogs live very different lives today, they still share a remarkable number of social behaviours shaped by common ancestry. Many everyday actions seen in pet dogs, such as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wolves and dogs don't normally breed in the wild, largely because wolves are so territorial. But an exception has been found.

There are about 1 billion dogs in the world, hundreds of breeds, uncountable mixes. But all these animals share a common ancestor, the wolf. Scientists continue to debate when and where dogs and ...

Getting things right in the name of science: The truth matters Over the past week a large number of people have sent me information about two recent essays, one called "The World Is Full of Dogs ...

If you’ve ever watched your dog grab a mouthful of kibble, trot purposefully across the room, and drop it on the living room ...

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 ...

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 US scientists, who were surprised to find ...

As the One Ear wolf pack establishes a heavy presence near his family’s four-generation cattle ranch in North Park, Adam VanValkenburg estimates that he has spent hundreds of hours this summer just ...