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 ...

Today’s dogs are descendants of wolves who joined the humankind pack tens of thousands of years ago as a means of survival, ...

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 ...

He said the process of dog domestication began when a population of wolves moved to the outskirts of hunter-gatherer camps to scavenge for leftovers. ''Those wolves that were tamer and less ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The wolf and human can form a partnership without competition in cold climate. This would easily promote domestication," Lahtinen told Business Insider. The descendants of the leftover-eating ...

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 ...

But the details of exactly how and when wolves were tamed and domesticated remain up for intense debate. “There’s been millions of dollars spent to try to figure this out,” said Robert Losey ...