Looking for a winter companion? Discover the best cold-weather dog breeds built for snow, from Huskies to Saint Bernards.

Kylie M. Cairns receives funding from the Australian Dingo Foundation, the Australia and Pacific Science Foundation, the ACT government and donations from the general public. She is a director of the ...

From village dogs to toy poodles to mastiffs, dogs come in an astonishing array of shapes, colors and sizes. Today there are estimated to be about 700 million dogs living with or around humans. To ...

Learn more about how ancient wolf DNA is still found in modern dogs, and how it’s shaped those breeds.

Long before written history, early families moving across Eurasia kept dogs close as companions and helpers. A sweeping new study offers the clearest evidence yet that the history of dogs is ...

Wolf DNA seems to have influenced the size, smelling power and even personality of modern dog breeds, scientists said.

The scientists found that 64.1% of modern breed dogs carry wolf ancestry due to genetic crossbreeding nearly 1,000 ...

Their new study, published in PNAS, examined 2,693 genomes from modern and ancient dogs and wolves. It shows that 64% of dog ...

A recent study revealed that a majority of modern-day dog breeds had close contact with wolves several thousand years ago ...

A new documentary explores whether making fire and driving dog sleds in freezing Arctic temperatures can alleviate young peoples’ modern anxieties.

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