HAMBURG — You can’t help but feel a bit sorry for dogs. Just look at what they have to put up with via the German language. Bad weather? Hundewetter, “dog weather.” Exhausted? Dog-tired. Down on your ...
Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A new study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...
Wolves and dogs don’t normally breed in the wild, largely because wolves are so territorial. But an exception has been found. While wild dog-wolf hybrids had previously only been suspected through ...
Who said it first, no one knows. But Frederick the Great, warrior ruler and enlightened despot of 18th-century Prussia, said it well. “The only, absolute and best friend a man has, in this selfish ...
A recent study revealed that a majority of modern-day dog breeds had close contact with wolves several thousand years ago Getty A recent study reveals how many modern-day dog breeds still have ...
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 ...