On a wind-battered rock in the Baltic Sea, archaeologists have uncovered a scene that should not exist: gray wolves living ...

It’s no secret that dogs used to be wolves – a once-wild species domesticated over generations until it became humanity’s ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient wolf remains on a small Baltic island where wolves could only have been brought by humans.

Ancient wolves found on a human-occupied Baltic island reveal unexpected and complex forms of prehistoric human-animal interaction. Researchers have uncovered wolf remains dating back thousands of ...

From bone-wearing caterpillars to revived ancient wolves, 2025 delivered discoveries that unsettled science and stretched ...

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

After comparing all genomes, the researchers found that the Japanese wolf is part of an evolutionary branch of wolves that arose 20,000 to 40,000 years ago. Some of the wolves from this branch evolved ...

The ancestry of dogs has been traced to two populations of ancient wolves that roamed Asia and the Middle East during the last Ice Age, according to a new study in Nature. Man's best friend evolved ...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYO. – In 1877, five years after Yellowstone became the nation’s first national park, an unlikely band of visitors showed up at its western border. Chased by a phalanx of ...

"The search continues to narrow down exactly where dogs come from," said Dr. Anders Bergström, an author of the study from the Francis Crick Institute Glenn Garner is a form writer-reporter who worked ...

In an announcement straight out of ancient history — or the pages of a George R. R. Martin novel — a leading genetics company says it has essentially revived the extinct dire wolves that famously ...

It's been thought that small dogs were bred that way to fill man's demand for a tiny best friend. But it seems that the origins of little dogs can actually be traced back to wolves. New research has ...