Wolves have broader faces and shorter, rounded ears, whereas coyotes have slender faces, taller, pointed ears, and thinner ...

Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A ...

Every family dog carries a long evolutionary story in its cells, one that traces back to gray wolves even if the animal on ...

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 ...

There has been another encounter between a wolf and people in the Netherlands. Last weekend, a wolf approached people with dogs in Dwingelderveld National Park in Drenthe. The province is ...

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 ...

BOISE, Idaho — Thousands of vacationers in the West will probably see a wolf in the wild for the first time this summer, often from the road but sometimes while camping or hiking. The federal ...

PILOT HILL, Calif. — On a back road in Pilot Hill, California, overlooking Folsom Lake, there’s a sanctuary where women and wolves heal together. As the sound of howling echoes through the hills, it’s ...

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 ...