Washington: If you've ever fallen for the old "puppy dog eyes" trick, don't feel bad. A new study has found dogs evolved new facial muscles specifically to tug at your heartstrings over the course of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A puppy frozen for 18,000 years could hold vital clues to how dogs evolved from wolves, if scientists can figure out which one it is. The two-month-old canine is an astonishing 18,000 years old and ...

Brian Hare began studying dog intelligence as an undergraduate at Emory University in the 1990s, after realizing that Oreo, his Labrador retriever, had a remarkable ability. Unlike other animals, even ...

A recent study revealed that a majority of modern-day dog breeds had close contact with wolves several thousand years ago Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day canines carry a small amount of wolf genes. A surprising study reveals that there ...

This puppy mummy was found in permafrost near the Indigirka River, northeast of Yakutsk, Russia. The state of preservation was very good and remained not only in the whole body, nose, mouth and teeth, ...

According to research journal Scientific Reports, when humans shared their extra food with wolves, it changed the relationship from a competitive one to a more symbiotic friendship. This allowed the ...

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 ...