When the man first spotted the wild dog last November, she was nosing around his neighbor’s farm in New South Wales, Australia, eating whatever she could find. But the dog, a dingo now named Manuka, ...

A woman in the small town of Wandiligong, Australia, made a very special discovery when a rare animal dropped from the sky and into her backyard. Jayne Guiney assumed the little animal was a lost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With his pointy ears and shiny coat, there's little wonder Wandi was -- at first -- mistaken for an abandoned puppy. He was found ...

If you look closely at the Indian wolf-dog and the Australian dingo, there are a lot of similarities between the two, and they both look quite similar. Apart from the similarity in their physical ...

Burial remains from 800-2,000 years ago hint that the First Australians may have kept the continent’s famous canine species as pets. By Franz Lidz This article is part of our Pets special section on ...

Wandi the purebred dingo will now help protect the future of his vulnerable species Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, animal rescue ...

Australia's largest predator, the dingo, is resistant to one of the main threats to its survival as a species—changes to skull shape brought about by cross breeding (hybridisation) with dogs, research ...