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 ...

The past three decades or so have produced a remarkable number of articles attempting to solve the mysteries surrounding the origins and nature of dogs, that polyglot horde of canines who share the ...

The gray wolf, also called the timber wolf, is the largest member of the canine family with fur ranging from gray to brown, black or white. Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that have evolved to live ...

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