For thousands of years, dogs have been man’s best friend. When humans still lived primarily in hunter-gatherer societies, dogs were among the first domesticated animals. And as the millennia passed, ...

Parsifal is a feral dog from southern Italy being brought back into human society. My fellow Psychology Today blogger Marc Bekoff photographed him in Turin and calls him "one of the most amazing dogs" ...

Watch a wolf documentary for a few minutes, then look at a French Bulldog snoring on someone's couch. It almost feels impossible that they share the same ancestry. And yet they do. Every Chihuahua, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wolves and dogs don't normally breed in the wild, largely because wolves are so territorial. But an exception has been found.

Where did dogs come from? That simple question is the subject of a scientific debate right now. In May, a team of scientists published a study pointing to East Asia as the place where dogs evolved ...

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.

Wolf-dog hybrids are growing far more common in Italy, raising scientists’ concerns for the future of the wolves Gennaro Tomma, bioGraphic About 47 percent of wolves in Italy are considered wolf-dog ...