While that coexistence may not have always been compatible, the discovery of fossilized bones from wild canids during an excavation in Alaska has revealed to archaeologists and scientists that a ...

Other canids in the data set had diets that included fish and game. “This is the smoking gun because they’re not really going after salmon in the wild,” said Ben Potter, an archaeologist at ...

“People may have domesticated canids that left no trace in later dog lineages. Alternatively, some wild canids may have been kept as pets and others hunted.” The researchers compared the ...

The captured wild canids are then released into pens and used to “train” hunting dogs. Considered “sport” and “entertainment” by some, one terrified coyote or fox may be pitted against packs of hound ...

where people were living with and feeding wild canids,” Charlotte Lindqvist, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Buffalo not involved in the study, wrote in an email. “Some of these ...