Dogs and wolves living today derive from a shared ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears ...

If you follow me back in time to roughly 60 million years ago, you will see a little creature that resembles a weasel scuttling across the forests of what is now Asia. The cherished fuzzy friends who ...

Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Evolution and classification of Canids -- Comparative aspects of behaviour in Canids -- The behaviour and functions of submission -- A pack of wolves -- Social ...

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South America’s “foxes” are the most diverse collection of canids on the planet, and they were initially documented scientifically by none other than legendary naturalist Charles Darwin. In 1835, ...

Dogs are not our nearest relatives in the animal kingdom, but they are our oldest friends. Scientific evidence suggests that, at least 10,000 years ago, early humans gradually domesticated wild dogs, ...

A new study on dogs found that chromatin's spatial structure has a significant role in the evolution of social behavior. Chromatin, the compact form of DNA, not only packages genetic material but also ...

In 2021, an animal shelter in Vacaria, Brazil discovered an animal that appeared to hybrid between a domestic dog and a pampas fox—a “false” fox that’s actually a canid more similar to wolves and ...