Superficially, gene flow between dingoes and European dogs sounds like a negative outcome. Our research, however, suggests ...

Dingoes have long been considered a type of wild dog to the residents of Australia, when in fact this isn’t entirely accurate. Image Credit: Pixabay New research published just this week in the ...

The Australian dingo descends from domesticated dogs that people from Southeast Asia brought with them to Australia some 5,000 years ago. Genetic studies indicate that it is probably a matter of a ...

A dingo that attacked two children and a man on the Queensland island of K'gari in recent weeks has been euthanised. Queensland's Department of Environment, Science and Innovation said the dingo was ...

The average size of a dingo is increasing, but only in areas where poison-baits are used. Dingoes have gotten around 6-9 per cent bigger over the past 80 years, new research from UNSW and the ...

A 6-year-old Australian girl was bitten in the head by a dingo that then dragged her underwater — until her heroic family members rushed in to save her from the wild dog. The girl, only identified as ...

In 1788, the European colonisation of Australia began with the arrival of 11 ships from the UK. The landing began a rapid transformation of the country. Some species were wiped out entirely, while ...

A trio of researchers, Adam Brumm, Mietje Germonpré, and Loukas Koungoulos, has proposed that the dingo and its relationship to Aboriginal foraging communities in Australia can serve as a model for ...

"A dingo's got my baby!" It's a punchline you probably remember hearing before you knew exactly what a dingo was. But this is what actually happened: A nine-week-old Australian baby disappeared on a ...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA—Mirage News reports that researchers including dingo expert Loukas Koungoulos, zooarchaeologist Rebecca Jones, and archaeological geologist Sam Player examined a dingo burial in ...

It's well known that chimpanzees, birds, and many other "smart" animals make and use tools. What we currently know about animal tool behavior has recently been reviewed in a wonderful book by Robert ...