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

Scientists don't know exactly how wolves were domesticated into early dogs, but it's possible that they domesticated themselves by choosing to coexist with humans so that, a new study finds, they ...

Between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago, people in Alaska kept reinventing dogs with mixed results. The dogs that share our homes today are the descendants of a single group of wolves that lived in Siberia ...

Most pet dogs carry small fragments of wolf DNA, left behind after their long association with people. That genetic trace is ...

A new study published in Animal Cognition suggests that while dogs appear more affectionate and submissive than wolves during greetings with humans, these differences may not be solely due to ...

Bones from the turn of the Holocene indicate that humans were feeding canines—including wolves and coyotes—fish over 10,000 years ago, Reading time 3 minutes Who let the dogs out? It remains unclear, ...

Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape ...

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I think he’s conflating tamed with domesticated. To me, a domesticated animal is one that can be socialized to humans such that you never have to worry about such a bite (in general, as there can ...