"The Truffle Hunters" is a slice of life from a place on Earth that's as hilly and lovely as a fairy tale kingdom and unusual more than ever in our times. Dogs and men - in fact, aged dogs and old men ...

Deep in the rolling hills of northern Italy, where ancient oak trees guard their precious underground treasures, a special breed of dog has been perfecting the art of truffle hunting for centuries.

Monza, a truffle hunting dog, and her dog trainer Lois Martin found a new truffle species at a municipal park in Tennessee. On Christmas Eve, Lois Martin decided to take Monza, her Lagotto Romagnolo, ...

If this were Arkansas, these working dogs would be focused on retrieving ducks for their hunter owners. But this is the Napa Valley. The working dogs at Robert Sinskey Vineyards in Carneros on ...

Two dogs specially trained to sniff out truffles have helped researchers identify two new-to-science truffle species in the U.S., according to a recent study. Truffles, synonymous with luxury fine ...

Something funky this way comes. All over the world, deep inside dark forests, hunters tip toe in secret for a wildly expensive delicacy: truffles. The aromatic fungi grows underground, tethered to ...

The trail into the forest was muddy from recent rains. But that didn’t bother the three boisterous dogs leading a truffle hunt in Croatia’s Istrian Peninsula. While we stepped carefully down a steep ...

Researchers, citizen scientists and their 'truffle dogs' -- have discovered two new species of truffle. Tuber canirevelatum, meaning the 'dog-found' truffle, was named in honor of truffle dogs and ...

The text showed up around 7 p.m. on a Thursday night in late February. I had been loosely communicating with a truffle hunter named Ava, who, like any good forager or fungus seeker, had been pretty ...