For decades, scientists, policymakers, graziers and land managers have been locked in a surprisingly high-stakes debate over ...

The dingo features they described in a 2014 paper in the Journal of Zoology —a flatter, broader head and longer muzzle than a dog—were enough, they argued, to warrant a unique species name.

Yet the dingo was a weird exception: it’s very closely related to dogs and wolves, and thus clearly didn’t evolve alone on Australia for millions of years, as the aforementioned animals did.

advertisement 02-22-2021 NEWS What makes your dog, a dog? Ask a dingo A new Penn State study looks at the evolutionary step in between dogs and wolves.

But regardless of that outcome, the details of human-dingo interactions at remote mining camps may help reveal more about how wolves long ago started down the path of becoming dogs.

A small surcharge on dog food could massively improve conservation for Australia’s native dingos and wild dogs.

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 ...