Posted on 10/30/2025 9:13:08 PM PDT by Red Badger
Greek scientists have confirmed a rare genetic event deep in the wild—one that blurs the line between domestic and untamed.
A team of Greek wildlife biologists has confirmed the country’s first genetically verified wolf-dog hybrid, identified during a multi-year study of wild wolf populations. The animal, discovered in the forests of northern Greece, carries a genetic profile of 55% domestic dog and 45% gray wolf, according to data released by the conservation group Callisto.
The finding was made during an analysis of 50 biological samples collected from wolves across mainland Greece. DNA sequencing revealed one specimen with clear hybrid characteristics. The individual was not the result of captive breeding but a wild-born animal, making it a rare and significant case in European wildlife monitoring.
Genetic Confirmation Amid Growing Wolf Numbers While wolf-dog hybrids have been observed elsewhere—primarily based on phenotypic characteristics—few have been genetically confirmed in the wild. This case, reported by Greek City Times, is the first of its kind in Greece and among the few supported by genomic data in Europe.
Domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and gray wolves (Canis lupus) are closely related and share more than 99.9% of their genome, enabling interbreeding under specific conditions. However, natural hybridization remains infrequent due to behavioral and ecological barriers, including the territorial nature of wolves and the low likelihood of dogs surviving independently in wild environments.
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If I can’t have a Dire Wolf, I’ll settle for a Maned Wolf.
Another retarded click-bait headline unsupported by the article.
Ah yes - lycanthropy then produces the Werewolf. Like tomorrow night!
Ahooooo!
Apparently White Fang was never translated into Greek.
Or Call of The Wild......................
I’d like to meet his tailor.
Most fortunate that a damn Chihuahua is to damn small to breed with Wolves. Imagine a wolf with the personality of a Chihuahua. It would be a nightmare.
You know what the worst thing about being a Wolf Man must be?
You wake up in the morning, and remember drinking out of the toilet.
“You wake up in the morning, and remember drinking out of the toilet.”
And how you rolled in a pile of coon dung right before you went in and drank from the toilet.
For survival, humans have highly evolved brain circuitry for performing instant DNA analysis at a distance. While phenotypic characteristics can identify specific DNA sequences with great precision, it's the correlations that are most important, and unfortunately, most infallible.
I thought wolf /dog hybrids were as common as horse /donkey hybrids, which result in a sterile mule. Maybe not.
It is more likely that the opinion is generated among the government and NGO beneficiaries of wolf reintroduction to keep from rocking that cash cow. There is big money involved.
They then move to London.
Are you giving bad ideas that could end the world?
Speek fer yorsef, mister smarty pantts!
When you have a growing, protected population of wolves that no longer fears humans that is when you get hybrids.
You also have opened a huge can of worms because the wolves and the hybrids will not fear people and will start to hunt and attack them.
There is a reason why humans hunted the wolves. It was because they are an actual danger once they reach a certain population density.
But we have to relearn the lesson again and again apparently.
Friends raised Woolf Dogs, beautiful, smart animals. When they had puppies, one of them picked me as his new mom. Really tempting, but I already had a dog and two cats. My Keeshond and the Woolf Dog got along pretty well, but Ireally couldn’t trust “Woolfy” around my cats,
The “Daily Galaxy”?!?
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