The first thing you hear once the small plane has landed on the beach is the howling. Fraser Island, off Australia’s northeast coast, is home to some 160 dingoes — wild, dog-like cousins of wolves — ...

Dingoes have long been considered a type of wild dog to the residents of Australia, when in fact this isn’t entirely accurate. Image Credit: Pixabay New research published just this week in the ...

Superficially, gene flow between dingoes and European dogs sounds like a negative outcome. Our research, however, suggests ...

Dingoes get a bad rap. A free-ranging dog found in chiefly in Australia, dingoes have been blamed for killing sheep and hunting the Tasmanian tigers and devils to death. Oh, and snatching the ...

A taxidermy-prepared dingo named Cooinda has been proposed to serve as an “archetype” specimen for all dingoes. A newly published article provides detailed information on this individual, including a ...

An exhaustive genetic analysis of wild canines in Australia is challenging the commonly held view that “pure” dingoes are basically extinct. Accordingly, scientists say it’s time to stop referring to ...

The Queensland Ambulance Service said that the "primary-school aged girl" was "swimming in shallow water" on Australia's Fraser Island when the attack occurred A young girl was airlifted to the ...

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 ...

The Australian island where this latest incident occurred has seen previous attacks involving animals and humans over recent months, according to reports Getty A trio of women were bitten by dingoes ...

Thomas Newsome receives funding from the Australian-American Fulbright Commission and is currently the Fulbright New South Wales Scholar based at Oregon State University and the University of ...

Two Australian women have been fined for taking selfies and videos of themselves posing with dingoes on an Australian island, authorities said Friday. The fines follow recent dingo attacks on a ...