If you look closely at the Indian wolf-dog and the Australian dingo, there are a lot of similarities between the two, and they both look quite similar. Apart from the similarity in their physical ...

Wild dingo populations have less dog lineage, with a significantly greater proportion of pure dingoes than previously thought, according to new research, challenging the view that pure dingoes are on ...

The dingo was completely isolated from other canines on the Australian mainland for more than 5,000 years, until domestic dogs arrived on the scene. Subsequent concerns about livestock loss formed the ...

Newly recovered DNA shows modern dingoes share almost no genetic ancestry with domestic dogs but are descended from ancient canids from China K’gari dingo (Canis lupus dingo, C. lupus familiaris dingo ...

For decades, scientists, policymakers, graziers and land managers have been locked in a surprisingly high-stakes debate over what defines a dingo. Are these wild canids their own species? Or are they ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kylie M. Cairns receives funding from the Australian Dingo Foundation, the Australia and Pacific Science Foundation, the ACT government and donations from the general public. She is a director of the ...