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 ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 led to a tragic loss of life and the abandoning of a town in northern Ukraine that was deemed too radioactive to live in. Pripyat, the site of the disaster in ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Roughly 30,000 to 15,000 years ago, the first dogs emerged from gray ...

On a wind-battered rock in the Baltic Sea, archaeologists have uncovered a puzzle that cuts to the heart of how dogs first ...

A new study reveals that modern dogs retain previously overlooked genetic traits inherited from wolves. These ancient DNA ...

The story of bringing dire wolves back from extinction begins not in a laboratory, but in ancient deposits where their remains lay buried for millennia. The genetic material that would eventually give ...

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

'Wolf: The Evolution' is a simulator which tells a tale of adventure. Welcome to the Silverglade Pack, a small family struggling to get a foothold in the wilderness. You must help them to expand and ...

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 ...

In a secret location in the United States, two white wolves are lounging in the grass in a sunny, roughly one-acre enclosure. It’s early spring and a chill wind blows through bare trees nearby. The ...

Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago and, as far as scientists can tell, never interbred since then. When you ...