The human-dog bond supports emotional, physical, and social health by reducing stress, improving heart and immune function, ...

When you have a pet dog, all you want is to come home to their wagging tail, their joyful jumps, their affectionate licks, ...

Dogs have been part of human societies across Eurasia for at least 20,000 years, accompanying us through many social and ...

Dogs almost never say “I love you” in ways humans recognise. There’s no poetry, no long messages, no dramatic monologues, just a bunch of small, goofy, slightly inconvenient behaviours we label as ...

When Missouri resident Lani got back to the store’s parking lot with her bag of items, she turned to her left and saw something she wasn’t expecting—the "most human"-looking dog she had ever seen. In ...

Greenlandic sled dogs, also known as Qimmit, play while resting. Markus Trienke via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-SA-2.0 Man’s best friend has been our faithful companion for thousands of years.

“Poop is central to the story of how dogs came into our lives," write Duke University dog researchers Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods in their wonderful new book, Survival of the Friendliest: ...

A genomic study shows that over the last 10,000 years, diverse Eurasian cultures kept and spread genetically distinct dog populations.