Alongside the bones of an infant were the remains of a large dog in a grave in northern Italy. The 2,000-year-old double ...

Domestication has made cats and dogs more diverse, but also curiously alike—with serious implications for their health and welfare, new research shows.

Max, a 5-year-old rescue from Alabama, is a mix of around 10 different breeds. His expressive features, wide-set eyes, a ...

Sometimes, humans and dogs shared ancestral origins. For example, dogs and humans that lived around 5,000 years ago in Sweden both originated in the Near East.

Your dog may speak in barks and growls, but they also may understand human language, according to a new report.

Jeffrey Kluger writes about the special bond humans and dogs have shared for centuries — so much so that humans can speak dog ...

According to one research team, the way that dogs come to respond to the level of people’s attentiveness tells us something about the ways dogs think and learn about human behavior.

The Dog Aging Project is a long-term nationwide survey on the health and lifestyles of U.S. dogs that launched in 2019. Today, the project has more than 50,000 canines and counting. Today, hear ...

What role have dogs played in human evolution? Woof … now there’s a question. Anthropologist Pat Shipman, in a recent issue of American Scientist, suggests dogs gave our human ancestors an ...

It’s mating season for most of the 29 species of tarantulas in the United States, 10 of which can be found in California, ...