New DNA research shows that two-thirds of today's domesticated dogs, from hounds to shepherds to chihuahuas, have wolf DNA in ...

Whenever I learn something cool, I get this itching desire to tell someone about it. But as it turns out, I don't have to rush downstairs to interrupt whatever my flatmates are doing and bombard them ...

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

Researchers in the Arctic have recorded audio data of narwhals hitting deep-sea hydrophones. Although they aren’t entirely sure what might be causing them to investigate the microphones so closely, ...

Unlike cats, most members of the dog family – canids – are not what scientists call obligate carnivores. They don’t have to eat meat, in other words. The South American maned wolf, for example, has a ...