A young, stray puppy believed to have been dropped from the sky and into the backyard of an Australian family's property was actually a rare purebred dingo — an endangered wild dog breed native to ...

Just like everyone and everything else that was already in Australia when the First Fleet arrived in 1788, dingoes had to ...

Wandi the purebred dingo will now help protect the future of his vulnerable species Wandi dropped from the sky and into Internet stardom. In August, the small canine was found whimpering in the yard ...

The Australian dingo descends from domesticated dogs that people from Southeast Asia brought with them to Australia some 5,000 years ago. Genetic studies indicate that it is probably a matter of a ...

Weeks after he was found alone in an Australian backyard, Wandi the dingo is playing happily at a dingo sanctuary.The Australian Dingo Foundation said Wandi was found in a backyard in northeastern ...

Since the arrival of British settlers over 230 years ago, most Australians have assumed dingoes are a breed of wild dog. But 20 leading researchers have confirmed in a new study that the dingo is ...

Researchers at the University of Sydney have found no genetic evidence that the iconic Australian kelpie shares canine ancestry with a dingo, despite Australian bush myth. The paper, published in the ...

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 ...

A new study has, for the first time, sequenced the genome of the Australian desert dingo, a wild dog that has been geographically isolated from both wolves and domestic dogs for thousands of years.

Decades of speculation over whether a dingo dog took a baby who disappeared in Australia 32 years ago ended today with a startling revelation: A dingo actually did take 9-week-old Azaria Chamberlain, ...