Grey wolf. The grey wolf (Canis lupus), or just wolf, is a mammal of the order Carnivora, and the ancestor of the domestic dog. It is sometimes called timber wolf. A recent study found that the domestic dog is descended from wolves tamed less than 16,300 years ago south of the Yangtze River in China.
First lady Michelle Obama more popular than President Barack Obama as they leave the White House. With only a few days to go until he leaves the White House, President Barack Obama's final favorability ratings were released by Gallup on Monday. The polling outfit found 58 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the president as he leaves office, but two of the people he's been closest to over these past eight years in the White House beat him.
That, of course, is not always the case. Democratic President Bill Clinton left office with a relatively high approval rating in 2000, but his impeachment during a second term harmed the chances that his vice president, Al Gore, would succeed him. Republican George W. Bush narrowly won the White House in the 2000 election, though he lost the popular vote. President Barack Obama's sound approval rating may not be an indicator of Democrat Hillary Clinton's chances in 2016, either. The last time voters elected a Democrat to the White House after a president from the same party had just served a full term was in 1856, before the Civil War.