Now, researchers have found your pet puppy's closest known wild relative: the Japanese wolf, which was hunted to extinction more than a century ago. Without live specimens to sample, researchers ...

The Japanese wolf is more closely related to the ancestor of dogs than any other wolves found so far, according to a study that sequenced the genomes of nine museum specimens of the species ...

I n a discovery that may reshape our understanding of Japan’s extinct wildlife, 13-year-old Hinako Komori has brought a ...