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

HCN contributors won top honors for longform magazine writing — one for a piece about a new DNA technique that could bring closure for families of missing and murdered Indigenous people, and the other ...

Ancient wolves lived with people on tiny Baltic island. Their bones show shared food and long contact that hints at early ...

A new video shows wolves may be smarter than we think. Are they smart enough to use tools? And are they getting smarter?

The wolf DNA isn't left over from when dogs and wolves diverged; instead, it most likely came from interbreeding in the past ...

Scientists have long wondered when the domestication of dogs first started. Dogs are believed to be the first domesticated ...

Explore the groundbreaking advancements in canine genetics over the last two decades, from sequencing Tasha's genome to ...

Dogs evolved from gray wolves, but scientists debate exactly where, when and how many times dogs were domesticated. Ancient DNA evidence suggests that domestication happened twice, in eastern and ...

New studies of canine genetics shed light on the diversity of dogs and our longstanding, still-evolving relationship to them.

As if conjured up out of a mystical winter wonderland, huskies are stunning dogs with a unique and ethereal beauty. These ...

Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left ...

Dogs today come in a mind-blowing array of shapes and sizes, from the diminutive pug, Pekingese and Pomeranian to the grand ...