Here’s a curated selection of animal photos from the Triangle and beyond as captured through the lenses of News & Observer ...

The tiny, fluffy Chihuahua shuffling past you on the street may be part wolf. According to a new study led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian's National Museum ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The endangered Mexican Gray wolf remains an ongoing conservation topic in Arizona, and during a tour by the Society of Environmental Journalists April 24, wolf advocates, wildlife ...

The rescue is the only wolf dog facility in Wisconsin providing care for the hybrid animals. Apex Angels and Warriors will ...

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by U.S. scientists, who were surprised to ...

Many dog owners may not be surprised to learn that most dogs still carry some wolf DNA in their genomes. Domestication has changed dogs dramatically from their wolf ancestors, but most do still have ...

In Ladakh, Himalayan wolves are increasingly breeding with feral dogs, giving rise to a new animal known as khipshang that could injure humans and outcompete other carnivores ...

The Japanese wolf, a species thought to have gone extinct more than a century ago, may still roam the rugged mountain terrain ...

The remarkable surge in genetic technology has now allowed us to look at dogs and dog breeds in a whole new way. We can not only determine the wild canine ancestral species from which our dogs were ...