A white arctic wolf stands alert against a blurred green forest backdrop, its expression calm yet observant. The detailed fur ...

What’s furry, cute, and may have ancestral ties to ancient wolves? Possibly, your dog. Researchers at the New York-based American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

Except that the research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS), found that just two-thirds of ...

New research suggests that most modern dogs carry a small but detectable dose of wolf DNA acquired after domestication. Moreover, this lingering wolf ancestry has nudged traits from body size and ...

The winners of the Nature inFocus Photography Awards 2025 are here. Established to celebrate extraordinary wildlife imagery and conservation storytelling, the awards have grown into a global ...

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Visiting the grave of Charles Lindbergh, the original nativist celebrity, whose beliefs would fit right in to Donald Trump's ...

In the animal kingdom, the creatures with the biggest hearts – relative to their size – are often the tiniest among us.

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

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