In an effort to settle the debate about the origin of dog domestication, a technique that uses 3-D scans of fossils is helping researchers determine the difference between dogs and wolves.
Paleontology & Fossils
Sep 20, 2017
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Domestic dogs may have lost some of their innate animal skill when they came in from the wild, according to new research conducted at the Wolf Science Center in Austria.
Plants & Animals
Sep 15, 2017
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Wolves do not avoid areas of human disturbance when hunting moose in Alberta's oil sands region.
Ecology
Aug 30, 2017
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Hundreds of farmers, shepherds and politicians rallied in Aveyron, southern France, on Saturday calling for action to halt the slaughter of livestock by packs of wolves.
Ecology
Aug 5, 2017
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The French government on Thursday gave the green light for the cull of dozens of wolves in mountainous areas where sheep are under sustained attack.
Ecology
Jul 20, 2017
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Researchers have identified a genetic difference in domesticated dogs and wolves that could explain the canines' contrasting social interaction with humans.
Plants & Animals
Jul 19, 2017
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Mexican zoo officials are drooling over the birth of seven cubs of a species of endangered wolf.
Ecology
Jul 8, 2017
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A female gray wolf, her mate and at least three pups are the second pack of wolves spotted in Northern California since the species went extinct there in 1924, state wildlife officials said Wednesday.
Ecology
Jul 6, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers affiliated with Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences in Hungary has found that wolves hand-reared by adoptive humans grow to show signs of attachment and affection towards their human ...
Are the red and eastern wolves separate species, or hybrids with coyotes? And what has that got to do with climate change? Actually a lot, in illustrating what scientific inquiry is and what it isn't.
Evolution
Jun 9, 2017
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