HAMBURG — You can’t help but feel a bit sorry for dogs. Just look at what they have to put up with via the German language. Bad weather? Hundewetter, “dog weather.” Exhausted? Dog-tired. Down on your ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day canines carry a small amount of wolf genes. A surprising study reveals that there ...

Learn more about how ancient wolf DNA is still found in modern dogs, and how it’s shaped those breeds. All modern-day pooches, from beefy Newfoundlands to scrawny Salukis, are descended from an ...

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 ...

Who said it first, no one knows. But Frederick the Great, warrior ruler and enlightened despot of 18th-century Prussia, said it well. “The only, absolute and best friend a man has, in this selfish ...

Learn how DNA from 14,200-year-old dogs shows they lived in Europe before farming and traces their ancestry to eastern wolves. Early humans in Europe weren’t the only ones moving across the landscape.

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by U.S. scientists, who were surprised to ...