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 ...

Most modern dog breeds have small amounts of wolf ancestry from long after dogs were domesticated, according to a new study. The wolf DNA isn't left over from when dogs and wolves diverged; instead, ...

Many dog owners may not be surprised to learn that most dogs still carry some wolf DNA in their genomes. Domestication has changed dogs dramatically from their wolf ancestors, but most do still have ...

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 ...

A recent study revealed that a majority of modern-day dog breeds had close contact with wolves several thousand years ago Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

The remarkable surge in genetic technology has now allowed us to look at dogs and dog breeds in a whole new way. We can not only determine the wild canine ancestral species from which our dogs were ...