9 Wild Dog Breeds That Are Chaotically Quirky originally appeared on Parade Pets. We all have our quirks, and so do dogs. Some breeds are zany and high in energy, some have peculiar habits or ...

Dogs and wolves living today derive from a shared ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears.

The Chinook is a relatively rare dog breed that was bred in New Hampshire in the early 1900s and was used as an all-purpose ...

Some breeds naturally bring calm, others bring joy, and others offer that steady companionship that makes life feel brighter.

Their new study, published in PNAS, examined 2,693 genomes from modern and ancient dogs and wolves. It shows that 64% of dog breeds have detectable traces of wolf ancestry, remnants of ancient ...

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 ...

Damien Boyd Bertrand Paul Paris receives funding from Morris Animal Foundation, Roger Willliams Park Zoo and Fresno Chaffee Zoo. He is affiliated with James Cook University, the Institute for Breeding ...

“Puppy-dog eyes didn’t just evolve for us, in domestic dogs,” says comparative anatomist Heather Smith. Her team’s work has thrown a 2019 finding that the muscles in dogs’ eyebrows evolved to ...

The data showed that a dog with a similar weight to a wolf had a brain volume about three-quarters the size of the wolf’s.