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Nearly half of Italy's wolves are part dog now, thanks to hybridization. Is that a threat to the species?
Between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago, a now-extinct population of wolves evolved into dogs, with a little help from humans.
Dire wolves became extinct towards the end of the last ice age, about 12,000 years ago. They became well known among Game of ...
Don’t get too smug—the human brain has also been shrinking.
The more I consider the continuing debate over the “time” and “place” for the transformation of wolf into dog, the more I become convinced that the puzzle remains unsolved because of human devotion to ...
Using the oldest dog genes studied so far, scientists are finding more evidence that our furry friends have been our companions for thousands of years. Scientists think dogs descended from an ancient ...
A joint research team from Korea and Japan has completed the first full genome sequencing of ancient dogs from the Korean ...
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We Now Know When Dog Brains Shrank – And It Might Be Our Fault
Still a good boy. (susaro/E+/Getty Images) Dogs have far smaller brains than their wolf relatives, and now a study led by ...
It has long been known that dogs have less between their ears than wolves, but now research has suggested their brains ...
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