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Are dogs and wolves related?

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And wolves are more closely related to each other than to dogs. Genetic overlap between today's dogs and wolves is due to interbreeding after dogs became domesticated. Based on DNA evidence, the common ancestor of modern gray wolves and dogs was a large wolf-like creature that lived in Europe 9,000 to 34,000 years ago. read more

Dogs and wolves are so closely related that DNA analysis cannot distinguish a wolf from a dog or a wolfdog hybrid. Coyotes, however can be distinguished from wolves and dogs through DNA analysis. Scientists can identify a coywolf from a coyote and a wolf, and a coydog from a coyote and a dog. read more

And wolves are more closely related to each other than to dogs. Genetic overlap between today’s dogs and wolves is due to interbreeding after dogs became domesticated. Based on DNA evidence, the common ancestor of modern gray wolves and dogs was a large wolf-like creature that lived in Europe 9,000 to 34,000 years ago. read more

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