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Wolves Were Our Pets Before Dogs

Remains on a small island in the Baltic Sea suggest that humans kept and cared for wolves for thousands of years before they ...

Your dog still carries wolf DNA and it may be shaping their behaviour today, study suggests

Most pet dogs carry small fragments of wolf DNA, left behind after their long association with people. That genetic trace is ...
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Your pet dog, even the chihuahua, may still carry wolf genes

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, ...
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Demand for wolf-dog hybrid pets is surging—and that's a huge problem

Wolfdogs are becoming a popular choice worldwide with people looking for furry companions. Conservationists are growing increasingly concerned these hybrids could interbreed with wild wolf populations ...
AZ Central

Does your dog seem a bit wolfy? A new study explains why.

What’s furry, cute, and may have ancestral ties to ancient wolves? Possibly, your dog. Researchers at the New York-based American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...