Ancient wolves may have self-domesticated by staying near humans for food scraps, gradually evolving into early dogs.

Wolf-hybrids are the biological product of a wolf mating with a dog. Ownership of hybrid canines is permitted in Virginia, but owners must “ensure the adequate confinement and responsible ...

They may have been drawn to the discarded remains from ancient human meals, and a new model shows tame wolves could have become dogs in as little as 8,000 years.

You said the wolves and wolf-dogs live in pairs at the sanctuary ... Wolves usually have the same mate for many years at a time. However, wolves do sometimes change mates when their old mate ...

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The study's models found that early dogs separated from their ancient wolf species 37 percent of the time. If the scavenging animals preferred tamer mates, they formed packs of early dogs 74 ...

The black fur allele has fitness costs but also confers higher immunity against canine distemper virus, making mix-and-match mating key to population survival ... National Park where a large amount of ...