Scientists don't know exactly how wolves were domesticated into early dogs, but it's possible that they domesticated themselves by choosing to coexist with humans so that, a new study finds, they ...

Question: I know that modern dogs are descended from prehistoric wolves. My question is when and how were dogs domesticated from wolves? Answer: Some time ago, an archeological dig in Egypt uncovered ...

It’s hard to imagine that dogs descended from fierce grey wolves—especially when your fat labrador begs for peanut butter, or your poodle snores on the couch. And yet, that’s exactly what happened.

From time to time I hear people say that they live with or know a domesticated wolf because the wolf is friendly and gets along well with people because he or she is socialized. In this brief blog I ...

2) Wolves have been the closest companions of humans and we should not persecute them, but honor them for what they have meant to us as a species over the last 40,000 years. You discuss and criticize ...

Dogs in Europe had been domesticated from wild wolves by at least 14,200 years ago, two new genetic studies suggest. The two studies are a “significant advance” in understanding how dogs evolved from ...

They may have been drawn to the discarded remains from ancient human meals, and a new model shows tame wolves could have become dogs in as little as 8,000 years. A coastal wolf on British Columbia's ...

Between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago, people in Alaska kept reinventing dogs with mixed results. The dogs that share our homes today are the descendants of a single group of wolves that lived in Siberia ...