How will dogs reshape and redecorate nature in a world without humans? In a previous essay called "As Dogs Go Wild in a World Without Us, How Might They Cope?" I wrote about how dogs might adapt to a ...

Masisi, an orphan bonobo at Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in Congo with Mistique the village dog. When thinking about evolution, Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, or “survival of the fittest,” ...

The dog is descended from a single species, the grey wolf, but from an ancient lineage that is now extinct and is the only large carnivore ever to be domesticated. Dogs were domesticated by ...