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, ...

Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully emerged, according to a new study. Archaeologists found the remains, dated ...

Given the choice between a wolf and a dog for a companion, you might be more inclined to choose a floppy-eared mutt. For what it’s worth, that’s probably the right choice—as long as you’re human.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remains on a small island in the Baltic Sea suggest that humans kept and cared for wolves for thousands of years before they ...

Of course, there are significant differences between dogs and wolves, when they are in their own environments, but what happens when the dog goes native or the wolf becomes a lay-about? It sometimes ...

MAN’S best friend may be a very old friend indeed. An analysis of a bone from a newly identified ancient wolf species suggests that dogs may have split from wolves as early as 40,000 years ago. Now ...

Captive wolves may understand cause and effect better than dogs Let me emphasize that my questions about this study do not mean the researchers are wrong or that they don't recognize what they've ...

As the One Ear wolf pack establishes a heavy presence near his family’s four-generation cattle ranch in North Park, Colo., Adam VanValkenburg estimates that he has spent hundreds of hours this summer ...

The island measures just 2.5sq km and there is no evidence of native land mammals. Because of this isolation, researchers believe the wolves were brought in by people, most likely on ships. One ...