The Dog Aging Project, a long-term study on canine aging, has collected data on dog behavior from more than 50,000 owners, ...

For years, researchers have known that young children pick up words just by being around conversation. Toddlers do not need ...

Dogs can have wildly different personalities, which often vary by breed and size. Although individual temperament matters ...

Most pet dogs carry small fragments of wolf DNA, left behind after their long association with people. That genetic trace is ...

When you hear about "science focused on how dogs can live their best lives with us" it sounds like an imaginary job made up by a child. However, the field of animal welfare science is real and ...

Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape appearing over 11,000 years ago. A massive global analysis of ancient skulls shows ...

The second occurred in the “overhearing” condition, where the dog watched as the primary caretaker talked to another family ...

The new Dog Television Viewing Scale was used to assess what may draw some dogs to the TV. “Personality of the dog influences their viewing habits,” Jeffrey Katz, lead study author, psychology ...

If dogs constantly approach you, relax around you, or choose you over others, it’s not a coincidence. Subtle behavioral, ...

“Dogs are able to sniff out something we can’t,” says Dr. Ann Hohenhaus, Senior Veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center of New York City, and that’s not a clever quip this is a lifesaver for anyone ...

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