From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

The origins of modern dogs have long puzzled scientists. A team of American researchers recently shed new light on this ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...

DNA analysis, radiocarbon dating, and advanced measuring techniques are helping scientists learn where dogs came from and when they became our best friends. Our relationship with dogs goes back tens ...

Wolves and dogs share 99.9% of their DNA. Technically still the same species, they can also produce healthy offspring. But having said that, there’s no denying the physical difference between wolves ...

This is the second story in a two-part series recapping Colorado’s second year of wolf reintroduction.  When Coloradans ...

Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago and, as far as scientists can tell, never interbred since then. When you ...

A new line of research has revealed a surprising finding about how the presence of wolves helps keep people safe.