In a first-of-its-kind discovery, a complete mummified wolf was pulled from the permafrost in Siberia, after being locked away for more than 44,000 years. Scientists have now completed a necropsy (an ...

Man's best friend was the first of many animals humans have domesticated. But there was no clear before-and-after moment where dogs were suddenly a distinct population of wolves. While some ancient ...

A woolly mammoth that lived and died nearly 40,000 years ago has given us a spectacular scientific first, millennia later. From the skin and muscle of a mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) named Yuka, ...

"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 ...

Two different ancient wolf populations contributed DNA to modern dogs, according to a study by an international group of geneticists and archaeologist. Dogs are known to have descended from the gray ...

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 ...