Historic European accounts long described the canids as domesticated dogs. A new study suggests that’s probably not true.

Before going extinct roughly two million years ago, canids known as borophagines took down and consumed much larger prey ...

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Dog breeds have evolved over time, with many once-popular breeds now extinct due to changes in human needs, wars, and interbreeding. Examples like the ...

Rare Singing Dog Species, Thought To Be Extinct for 50 Years, Lives On in the Wild The New Guinea singing dog is closely related to the dingos found in nearby Australia ...

Ancient DNA from the pelt of a fluffy white dog named Mutton is revealing new details about the woolly dog, an extinct breed that was cared for and raised by the women of the Coast Salish tribal ...

It suggests that dogs descended from a wolf strain that has since gone extinct. The genetic tale is complicated, however, due to interbreeding between dogs and wolves in recent times. Unexpected ...

Scientists may have just discovered that the Japanese wolf (Canis lupus hodophilax), which went extinct over a century ago, might be the closest relative of modern dogs after studying the genomes ...