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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Dogs and wolves living today derive from a shared ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears ...

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

Radiation-induced mutation is unlikely to have induced genetic differences between dog populations in Chornobyl City and the nearby Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), according to a new study in ...

The researchers also devised a new way to calculate a dog’s age, but it’s arguably more complicated than simply multiplying ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels ...

Stray dogs in Chernobyl reveal genetic changes after decades of radiation, offering unique clues about how life adapts in ...