Dogs have a measurable ability to read human emotion, and research consistently shows that interacting with dogs lowers ...

A genetic study shows how human breeding choices influence ear length in dogs and why those traits persist across breeds.

Since their domestication millennia ago, dogs have been man’s best friend, and aside from friendship, centuries of selective breeding have tailored them for tasks like herding, hunting and guarding — ...

Just like all animals and humans, dogs too evolve over time but majorly they were inbred by humans specifically to achieve ...

What do Persian cats, Pekingese dogs and pugs have in common? They all share a dramatically distorted skull, with a flat, round face and a nose pushed up between their eyes. This unnatural morphology ...

Pure-bred dogs have been regarded as superior to crossbreeds or what some people refer to as mutts. However, we now understand that producing purebred dogs has drawbacks. The lack of variety in the ...