For more than 50 years, dozens of racers and hundreds of dogs have taken to the Iditarod trail in search of excitement and ...

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

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

Dog sledding evokes images of the vast, empty Alaskan wilderness. Hardy dogs traversing an unforgiving landscape carrying ...

Many dog owners may not be surprised to learn that most dogs still carry some wolf DNA in their genomes. Domestication has ...

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

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

A new study from two Museums of Natural History uncovered that two-thirds of dog breeds have detectable wolf DNA, from chihuahuas to Arctic sled dogs.

New research suggests that most modern dogs carry a small but detectable dose of wolf DNA acquired after domestication.

U.S. scientists analyzed the DNA of numerous modern-day dog breeds, and found that two-thirds of pet dogs have traceable wolf ...

Except that the research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS), found that just two-thirds of ...

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