Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully emerged, according to a new study. Archaeologists found the remains, dated ...

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When Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences' announced it was bringing back dire wolves from extinction, lots of people wondered if this was fact or fantasy. William Lynn, a research scientist at Clark ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. From their wolf ancestors to today’s sweet, loyal ...

Thousands of years ago, humans made a decision that would reshape the planet forever — they began domesticating animals. Starting with wolves that would become dogs, and stretching across millennia to ...

The predators have increased by almost 60 percent on the continent Olivia Ferrari Wolves have filled humans with wonder throughout our history, and they have been featured in art and mythology for ...

Introduction: The beginnings -- 1. The spaniels of San Marcos : what is a dog and who cares? -- 2. Cooperation between species -- 3. Homo canis : why humans are different than all other primates -- 4.

In her provocative new book, The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Dove Neanderthals to Extinction, Penn State paleoanthropologist Pat Shipman attributes the demise of Neanderthals around 40,000 ...

For thousands of years, wolves occupied a range of North American habitats stretching from Arctic tundra to deserts. Their numbers were drastically reduced by hunting and habitat loss, and it has ...