An international group of geneticists and archaeologists, led by the Francis Crick Institute, have found that the ancestry of dogs can be traced to at least two populations of ancient wolves. The work ...

A mummified baby wolf is drawing oohs and aahs from researchers. The nearly perfectly intact creature, believed to be a staggering 57,000 years old, was discovered by a gold prospector in the Yukon ...

Picture a hulking bear scampering on the vast icescape. All of a sudden, it slips on a melting patch and ends up falling inside a glacial lake whose numbing waters suffocate her. Over the years, the ...

In late January 2019, during a bitterly cold winter spell, scientists flew to Isle Royale in Lake Superior to try to locate three wolves that had recently been relocated to the island, the first part ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Dogs are one of humankind's greatest historical mysteries. Nobody is quite sure where they came from, but a new analysis of ancient wolf DNA ...