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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers previously thought dingoes were distance cousins of domestic dogs, though still genetically similar enough to frequently breed with the wild canines, creating hybrids. However, recent ...

Wandi dropped from the sky and into Internet stardom. In August, the small canine was found whimpering in the yard of a home in Wandiligong, a city in Australia’s state of Victoria, according to CNN.