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Dogs are one of humankind's greatest historical mysteries. Nobody is quite sure where they came from, but a new analysis of ancient wolf DNA points to somewhere in Asia. A cohort of geneticists, led ...

The mystery predator that killed more than 120 sheep in Eastern Montana last year was a "domestic" wolf and not a wild wolf from the Northern Rocky Mountains, state officials said Wednesday. DNA ...

When you play a game of fetch with your dog, they're picking up on a human social cue to retrieve the ball. Now, researchers have observed the same behavior in wolf puppies, meaning they also have the ...

The gray wolf, also called the timber wolf, is the largest member of the canine family with fur ranging from gray to brown, black or white. Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology ...