Anyone who shares a home with a dog has witnessed the ritual. The animal circles, paws at a specific corner of the cushion, ...

Wolf-dog hybrids are bred by crossing domestic dogs with wolves, sometimes just a few generations back. They carry physical traits and instincts that set them far apart from standard breeds. These ...

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by U.S. scientists, who were surprised to ...

The remarkable surge in genetic technology has now allowed us to look at dogs and dog breeds in a whole new way. We can not only determine the wild canine ancestral species from which our dogs were ...

For thousands of years before anyone thought to draw up a breed standard or enter a dog in a show ring, humans and dogs were ...

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 ...

Stacker highlights the 50 biggest dog breeds, according to the American Kennel Club, from the Irish setter to the mastiff.