Research offers insights into domestication of dogs but it remains unclear why they ended up with smaller brains than wolves ...

Dogs have long been known to have smaller brains than the wolves they descended from. But when they started to shrink has ...

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 ...

The tiny, fluffy Chihuahua shuffling past you on the street may be part wolf. According to a new study led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian's National Museum ...

A major genetic study has found that nearly two-thirds of modern dog breeds carry measurable wolf DNA, pointing to ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remains on a small island in the Baltic Sea suggest that humans kept and cared for wolves for thousands of years before they ...

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by U.S. scientists, who were surprised to ...