As a result of an unprecedented legal act signed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, this October brings a literal unleashing of dogs to hunt the state's resident wolf population. Soon, GPS-collared dogs ...
Dogs and wolves living today derive from a shared ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears ...
U.S. scientists analyzed the DNA of numerous modern-day dog breeds, and found that two-thirds of pet dogs have traceable wolf ...
Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient ...
The scientists found that 64.1% of modern breed dogs carry wolf ancestry due to genetic crossbreeding nearly 1,000 ...
The wolf DNA isn't left over from when dogs and wolves diverged; instead, it most likely came from interbreeding in the past ...
Jeremy Koster and Andrew Noss say in “Hunting dogs and the extraction of wildlife as a resource,” in the new Oxford University Press book, Free-Ranging Dogs & Wildlife Conservation (2014),” edited by ...