From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would represent a serious danger to nomads and herders, who ironically often ...

New research shows humans may have brought wolves to a remote island, fed them, and cared for them thousands of years ago.

Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully ...

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

A remarkable discovery on a remote Swedish island is reshaping what scientists know about early human–wolf relationships and ...

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 ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that ...

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 ...