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 ...

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 ...

People could be allowed to keep dingoes as pets in Queensland under proposed changes to biosecurity regulations, but experts ...

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 ...

Residents at a home in Australia heard crying coming from their backyard. When they went to see what it was, they found a little lost pup there alone and assumed it was a baby fox or a dog. After ...

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 ...

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.

There’s a lot riding on this little guy. A pup found stranded in the backyard of a rural Australian home was confirmed to be a rare, purebred dingo. The young canine named Wandi, which experts believe ...

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, ...