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Almost Every Dog on Earth Still Has a Bit of Wolf Inside — Even Chihuahuas

Their new study, published in PNAS, examined 2,693 genomes from modern and ancient dogs and wolves. It shows that 64% of dog breeds have detectable traces of wolf ancestry, remnants of ancient ...
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An Incredible Wolf-Dog Hybrid Has Emerged from the Mountains of Greece

Wolves and dogs don’t normally breed in the wild, largely because wolves are so territorial. But an exception has been found. While wild dog-wolf hybrids had previously only been suspected through ...
The Middletown Press

Thousands of genomes reveal the wild wolf genes in most dogs’ DNA

(THE CONVERSATION) Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that ...
The Telegraph

Thousands of genomes reveal the wild wolf genes in most dogs’ DNA

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Audrey T. Lin, Smithsonian Institution and Logan Kistler, Smithsonian Institution (THE ...