If there’s one thing Newfoundland dogs love, it’s snow. Thanks to their thick, water-resistant double coats, they don’t just ...

A new study finds that Gulf Coast coyotes are preserving red wolf genetic ancestry, aided by unexpectedly high survival rates ...

Wolves and dogs don’t normally breed in the wild, largely because wolves are so territorial. But an exception has been found.

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My middle name is Brendan, after my father. I remember as a child being gutted at having what I thought was such a vanilla Irish second name. When I was about 10, my father proudly showed me a ...

LAGO DI TESERO, ITALY — Before he became the most famous dog at the Olympics, Nazgul was not known as an escape artist. Still, his owners, Enrico and Alice Varesco, were not taking chances when they ...

Samoyeds and huskies have similar origins as sled dogs, plus they both are considered spitz breeds, which means they have a pointed, wolf-like appearance. Both the Siberian husky and the Australian ...

Join us on an enlightening journey in "Newfoundland Dogs: The Ultimate Life Upgrade." This captivating documentary explores the majestic Newfoundland breed, known for their gentle nature and ...

A wolf dog named Zeus, rescued from a Rhode Island shelter, recently celebrated one year without having a seizure. Zeus was adopted in 2023 by a Vermont resident, as owning wolf dogs is illegal in ...

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 ...

Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A new study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...

Many dog owners may not be surprised to learn that most dogs still carry some wolf DNA in their genomes. Domestication has changed dogs dramatically from their wolf ancestors, but most do still have ...