Wolf DNA seems to have influenced the size, smelling power and even personality of modern dog breeds, scientists said.
The scientists found that 64.1% of modern breed dogs carry wolf ancestry due to genetic crossbreeding nearly 1,000 ...
About two-thirds of modern dog breeds carry some wolf ancestry introduced within the past few thousand years.
The two subspecies split about 20,000 years ago. But since then, they may have interbred more often than Smithsonian ...
Many dog owners may not be surprised to learn that most dogs still carry some wolf DNA in their genomes. Domestication has ...
Every family dog carries a long evolutionary story in its cells, one that traces back to gray wolves even if the animal on ...
Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient ...
Their new study, published in PNAS, examined 2,693 genomes from modern and ancient dogs and wolves. It shows that 64% of dog ...
Dogs and wolves living today derive from a shared ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears ...
A recent study revealed that a majority of modern-day dog breeds had close contact with wolves several thousand years ago ...
Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi's dog Wolf died on Wednesday Maria Pasquini is the senior news editor for the human interest vertical at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2017.