Now, a new study brings us closer to understanding where the dingo fits in with other canines. In the recent study, which appears in the journal Science, the authors use genetic evidence to show that ...

Researchers previously thought dingoes were distance cousins of domestic dogs, though still genetically similar enough to frequently breed with the wild canines, creating hybrids. However, recent ...

A trio of researchers, Adam Brumm, Mietje Germonpré, and Loukas Koungoulos, has proposed that the dingo and its relationship to Aboriginal foraging communities in Australia can serve as a model for ...

400-year-old female dingo skull from Skull Cave, Augusta, Western Australia. DNA from fossilised dingo remains going back 2746 years compared with modern dingoes’ Dingos arrived in Australia more than ...

CANBERRA, Australia -- Aborigines had dingoes as companions for thousands of years, but modern Australians are debating whether these unique wild dogs should be kept as household pets. After all, the ...