Animal remains unearthed in Alaska give clues to how wolves were domesticated. By Alexander Nazaryan As the Late Pleistocene ice age drew to a close, people and wolves began to bond. From there ...

For thousands of years, the line between wolves and dogs has been blurred. Groups of people in different parts of the world, independently of each other, have repeatedly tried to domesticate wild ...

I watched a documentary titled, “The Lion in Your Living Room.” If you’ve ever observed a lion or tiger, you can’t help but have noticed certain traits that are similar to those of a common house cat, ...

The domestication of dogs began with their ancestors: wolves. Archaeological evidence suggests that the relationship between humans and wolves began over 20,000 years ago during the last Ice Age ...

The dog, Canis familiaris, is a direct descendent of the gray wolf, Canis lupus: In other words, dogs as we know them are domesticated wolves. Not only their behavior changed; domestic dogs are ...

Dogs, on the other hand, are essentially domesticated wolves. A recent episode of CBS’ “60 Minutes” highlighted an intriguing theory about how a branch of the grey wolf tree went rogue ...

Some argued that humans first domesticated wolves in Europe, while others claimed this happened in Central Asia or China. All these claims, according to the new study published in the U.S. journal ...

Dogs owe their cooperative nature to "the wolf within", the study, of cubs raised alongside people, suggests. But in the course of domestication, those that were submissive to humans were selected ...

Vilà and his colleagues decided to compare the mitochondrial DNA of dogs and wolves in an attempt to understand the genetic consequences of these species' different lifestyles: domesticated ...