Relations between dogs and people are so normal and pervasive as to pass almost unregarded. Yet viewed objectively, this ...

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

New research shows humans may have brought wolves to a remote island, fed them, and cared for them thousands of years ago.

DNA analysis, radiocarbon dating, and advanced measuring techniques are helping scientists learn where dogs came from and when they became our best friends. Our relationship with dogs goes back tens ...

Humans cared for wolves long before dogs emerged, study finds - New evidence of wolves and humans living together on Swedish ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient wolf remains on a small Baltic island where wolves could only have been brought by humans.

A remarkable discovery on a remote Swedish island is reshaping what scientists know about early human–wolf relationships and ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that ...

What’s furry, cute, and may have ancestral ties to ancient wolves? Possibly, your dog. Researchers at the New York-based American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...