What is a Wolf Dog? Wolf Dogs—or Wolfdogs—are hybrid canids with any combination of domestic dog breed and wild wolf parentage. True Wolf Dogs have recent wolf ancestry, but there are varieties of ...

Every household dog, from a towering Great Dane to a trembling toy breed, traces back to wild wolves. New genetic work shows that this ancestry is not just a distant story but a living imprint in ...

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 ...

Chihuahuas have about 0.2 percent wolf ancestry, according to a new study. While that chihuahua might seem about as similar to a wolf as a shrub is to a mighty redwood tree, some small breeds like the ...

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 ...

Animal care officials hope new rules will put an end to the breeding of wolf-dog hybrids in Pima County. They say the animals inhabit an impossible limbo: too wild to live among humans and too ...

When Game of Thrones premiered in 2011, one of its most unforgettable images appeared almost immediately: a litter of direwolf pups discovered in the snow, destined to become loyal companions to the ...

New research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History reveals that the majority of dogs living today have low but detectable ...

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 ...