Modern dogs, classified as Canis lupus familiaris, share a common ancestor with the gray wolf. Genetic studies have shown ...

Humans cared for wolves long before dogs emerged, study finds - New evidence of wolves and humans living together on Swedish island points to likely prehistoric domestication ...

Remains on a small island in the Baltic Sea suggest that humans kept and cared for wolves for thousands of years before they ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient wolf remains on a small Baltic island where wolves could only have been brought by humans. These animals weren’t dogs, but true wolves that ate the same marine food ...

Introduction: The beginnings -- 1. The spaniels of San Marcos : what is a dog and who cares? -- 2. Cooperation between species -- 3. Homo canis : why humans are different than all other primates -- 4.

Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea – a place where the animals could only have been brought by humans. The study, published in ...

As even irregular readers of this blog know, I have an abiding fascination with the question of how the wolf became the dog, or in the parlance of text messaging W2D. Why should the consummate ...

Our writer spent 30 hours traveling with arctic wolves and gained a new appreciation for these predators of the tundra.

Let me paint you a picture: Imagine you're an ancient hunter surveying the icy tundra of what is now California's Sierra Nevada. Covered in furs, armed only with the tools you've made by hand, and ...