Well, what about a baby woolly mammoth? A team of Russian scientists is working hard to resurrect this quintessential Ice Age ...

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

The two subspecies split about 20,000 years ago. But since then, they may have interbred more often than Smithsonian ...

Genomic analysis of more than 2,700 dog and wolf genomes shows that most modern dogs carry small traces of post-domestication wolf ancestry.

New research suggests that most modern dogs carry a small but detectable dose of wolf DNA acquired after domestication.

Researchers have found footprints of large, bone-crushing dogs in the 12 million-year-old Ashfall Fossil Beds in northeastern Nebraska, suggesting these large carnivores may have survived a ...

Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient genetic influence shows up in traits like body size, behavior, and ...

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

Many modern dogs are variations of former dog breeds that, for various reasons, have gone extinct. These dog breeds, in particular, are some of the most well-known breeds of dog that no longer exist.

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Christine Powers loves to bring Maeve, her 10-month-old golden retriever, to Six Harbors Brewing Company in Huntington, often accompanied by other friends with pooches. "We go everywhere with our dogs ...

Scientists from the Canadian Museum of Nature have announced the discovery and description of an extinct rhinoceros from the Canadian High Arctic. The nearly complete fossil skeleton of the new ...