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Meet the gray wolf: How the apex predator, largest member of the dog family, has evolved

The grey wolf is one of the world's most fearsome apex predators despite having a cute and cuddly appearance.
Forbes

A Biologist Pinpoints The Time When Dogs Diverged From Wolves (Hint: It’s Earlier Than Scientists Thought)

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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Nearly Half of Italy’s Wolves Are Part Dog Now, Thanks to Hybridization. Is That a Threat to the Species?

Wolf-dog hybrids are growing far more common in Italy, raising scientists’ concerns for the future of the wolves Gennaro Tomma, bioGraphic About 47 percent of wolves in Italy are considered wolf-dog ...
The Economist

How wolves became dogs

Who said it first, no one knows. But Frederick the Great, warrior ruler and enlightened despot of 18th-century Prussia, said it well. “The only, absolute and best friend a man has, in this selfish ...
Popular Mechanics

A Stray Dog Bred With a Wild Wolf—and Created a Staggering Hybrid

There are wolves that look like dogs, and dogs that appear suspiciously like wolves. For most, this is just a symptom of the fact that dogs are descended from wolves, but for one animal recently found ...