Popular genetics tests can’t tell you much about your dog’s personality, according to a recent study. A team of geneticists ...

Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A ...

People and pups may be more genetically similar than widely believed. In A Nutshell A gene linked to dog aggression is also associated with human intelligence, cognitive performance, and major ...

Genetic testing identifies changes (mutations) in a dog’s DNA that can indicate a predisposition to certain genetic diseases or inherited disorders. The primary benefits include early disease ...

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

Following my May 2022 post about Elinor Karlsson’s Science article on the genetic survey of dogs through the Darwin’s Ark project, and its conclusion that a dog’s breed does not predict its behavior, ...

Alaskan sled dogs are a hybrid canine athlete combining traits of arctic adaptation, speed, endurance, and mental and physical fortitude. They were originally developed as working dogs to haul ...

When you glance at the variety of dog breeds, it's easy to think they're all vastly different. From tiny Chihuahuas to ...

Humans began selectively breeding dogs around 2,000 years ago, and these genes play a role in your pup's behavior, a new study of 4,000 purebred, mixed-breed and wild dogs finds. When you purchase ...

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If you look closely at the Indian wolf-dog and the Australian dingo, there are a lot of similarities between the two, and they both look quite similar. Apart from the similarity in their physical ...