But how domesticated are they really, and what does living with one entail? Spoiler alert: Owning a wolfdog isn’t like having ...

is a direct descendent of the gray wolf, Canis lupus: In other words, dogs as we know them are domesticated wolves. Not only their behavior changed; domestic dogs are different in form from wolves ...

Dogs use their mouths to explore the world, similarly to how we use our hands. Dogs often chew, lick and explore with their ...

A wolf dog is a cross between a domesticated dog and a wolf. This large animal is a controversial pet that may make a great ...

Combined, these new findings led the researchers to believe that dogs were first domesticated from geographically separated wolf populations on opposite sides of the Eurasian continent.

according to research that adds a new twist in the tale of how one was domesticated from the other. Dogs owe their cooperative nature to "the wolf within", the study, of cubs raised alongside ...

domesticated versus wild. (Remember, both dogs and wolves evolved from a common ancestral wolf species, so wolves are an ideal control with which to study the consequences of dogs' life with humans.) ...

In 2016, the University of Oxford published evidence that dogs were domesticated twice ... Asia around 14,000 years ago—from two separate wolf lineages. Their work argues that as well as ...

But none of those benefits became apparent until long after dogs' wolf ancestors had been domesticated. So scientists long wondered about the initial reasons for dog domestication. The question ...