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 ...

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 ...

Researchers previously thought dingoes were distance cousins of domestic dogs, though still genetically similar enough to frequently breed with the wild canines, creating hybrids. However, recent ...

A family in Australia who rescued a stray puppy in their backyard learned that he was actually an endangered dingo. "He was very laid back and happy to be picked up. Really just ever so cute, he was ...

Now, a new study brings us closer to understanding where the dingo fits in with other canines. In the recent study, which appears in the journal Science, the authors use genetic evidence to show that ...

400-year-old female dingo skull from Skull Cave, Augusta, Western Australia. DNA from fossilised dingo remains going back 2746 years compared with modern dingoes’ Dingos arrived in Australia more than ...

CANBERRA, Australia — Aborigines had dingoes as companions for thousands of years, but modern Australians are debating whether these unique wild dogs should be kept as household pets. After all, the ...

Only the New Guinea singing dog, so named because of its ability to modulate its howling, can match the dingo's longevity, the University of NSW's Dr Alan Wilton suggests. His work, part of an ...