It was a scary moment in the Twin Cities over the weekend, as a trailer hauling sled dogs turned over on Interstate 494 in ...

The two subspecies split about 20,000 years ago. But since then, they may have interbred more often than Smithsonian ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

The wolf DNA isn't left over from when dogs and wolves diverged; instead, it most likely came from interbreeding in the past ...

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Genomic analysis of more than 2,700 dog and wolf genomes shows that most modern dogs carry small traces of post-domestication ...

Nine huskies that are part of a dog-sledding team were rescued when the trailer they were traveling in “split in half” during a one-vehicle crash in wintry conditions in Minnesota.Footage released by ...

It was a scary moment in the Twin Cities over the weekend, as a trailer hauling sled dogs turned over on Interstate 494 in ...

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