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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Dingoes could soon be moving from the wild into people’s homes, with Queensland considering reclassifying the iconic predator as a domestic dog, or Canis familiars.

Months after it was found hiding and crying in the garden of a backyard in north-eastern Victoria, DNA testing has confirmed a small pup that was suspected to have arrived by air is pure dingo. An ...