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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Wolves in both East and West Burdwan seem to be repeating the ‘Bahraich effect’ in the jungle patches as the endangered ...

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 ...