For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to herding and companionship. This deliberate shaping of traits has resulted in ...

You wouldn’t believe how much dog breeds have changed over the years! Here are the before and after pictures of 18 dogs ...

Over the past few months, animal activists have repeatedly broken into a Wisconsin dog breeding farm and testing facility.

It gives new meaning to dog years. Various types of sled dogs have been used by humans across the Arctic for almost 10,000 years, but new research reveals one particular type to be the oldest ...

Dogs have spent thousands of years evolving alongside us—and thanks to natural selection and selective breeding, they’ve become pros at reading our emotions. A slight change in our tone, a raised ...

A rare breed of hunting dogs known for its forked nose, the Turkish Pointer, might just help scientists better understand why human babies are sometimes born with facial clefts. In a recent study, ...

This essay was written by Marc Bekoff, Ph.D., with Jane Goodall, Ph.D. Every year, more than 40,000 dogs, mostly beagles, are used in research in the United States. They are often used in painful and ...

Dogs already had much smaller brains than wolves 5,000 years ago, suggesting that life in early farming villages reshaped ...

Domestication has made cats and dogs more diverse, but also curiously alike – with serious implications for their health and welfare, new research shows. At first glance, Persian cats and pugs don’t ...