“A reduction in skull size for dogs is first detectable between 9,700–8,700 years ago, while an increase in size variance ...

Cats and dogs often behave like human children, especially when they are siblings. They will bicker and get on each other’s nerves in hilarious ways. Just take the canine and feline siblings in this ...

Everybody knows that dogs can learn to associate specific spoken words with objects that look a certain way. A groundbreaking new study, however, shows that some gifted dogs can also match given ...

Lots of folks treat their pets as if they have human thoughts and emotions but it’s easier to fall into that habit when your dog has very human expressions. Lil Max, a former stray that looks like a ...

Some dogs show behaviors towards their toys that resemble behavioral addictions in humans, such as gambling and internet gaming, according to a study of 105 dogs published in Scientific Reports.

Be nice - or your dog may judge you. According to a study recently published in the journal Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews and highlighted by New Scientist, dogs can tell when someone's being ...

A group of researchers based in Hungary dedicated almost a year to learning about dogs and how they communicate—and whether the animals could ever learn to speak. Ethologist Tamás Faragó and collegues ...