Dingo, this week’s Northern Chautauqua Canine Rescue Dog of the Week, is a brand new arrival at the shelter. She had been waiting for a while in an overcrowded shelter that ran out of space for her, ...

In 1788, the European colonisation of Australia began with the arrival of 11 ships from the UK. The landing began a rapid transformation of the country. Some species were wiped out entirely, while ...

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 ...

Now, a new study brings us closer to understanding where the dingo fits in with other canines. In the recent study, which appears in the journal Science, the authors use genetic evidence to show that ...

400-year-old female dingo skull from Skull Cave, Augusta, Western Australia. DNA from fossilised dingo remains going back 2746 years compared with modern dingoes’ Dingos arrived in Australia more than ...

Only the New Guinea singing dog, so named because of its ability to modulate its howling, can match the dingo's longevity, the University of NSW's Dr Alan Wilton suggests. His work, part of an ...

New research shows that Australia’s dingoes and modern day dogs have less in common with each other than once presumed. Researchers studied the ancient DNA remains of dingoes around the continent and ...

Researchers previously thought dingoes were distance cousins of domestic dogs, though still genetically similar enough to frequently breed with the wild canines, creating hybrids. However, recent ...

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

Dingoes are no ordinary dogs. They trace their roots back to an ancient Asian lineage and made their way to Australia more ...