The Rowe family dog Ralph was one of many canines who participated in a study of the drug rapamycin. Scientists were able to ...

Can old dogs teach us new tricks for how to live longer, healthier lives? A nationwide project searches for answers.

Research reveals that some prairie dog alarm calls encode remarkably specific information about humans and other predators.

We've all heard it a million times: One human year is equal to seven years for a dog. But new scientific research has an updated scientific equation to determine how old your dog actually is in human ...

Dog owners often treat their pets like miniature humans – and now scientists are studying canines in the same way to discover more about the mystery of ageing in people. They suspect a clue to the ...

Dogs have been part of human societies across Eurasia for at least 20,000 years, accompanying us through many social and cultural upheavals. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

Some clever dogs can pick up on the names of hundreds of toys just through natural interactions with their owners. A team led by cognitive scientist Shany Dror from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary ...

Julia B. Linares-Roake explores how people navigate the muddiness of living with dogs from their point of view as we over-control how they play and express their "dogness." ...

If you've ever had to spell out words like W-A-L-K or T-R-E-A-T around a dog, you know that some dogs listen in to humans' chitchat and can pick out certain key words. Well, it turns out that some ...