Canines know how to make their owners feel special. Like humans, these innocent creatures enjoy expressing affection and ...

A new study by an international research team led by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) has revealed striking similarities in the ...

Dogs have long been considered man’s best friend. They are wonderful companions, protectors, friends, and even family members to millions of people. No matter how close you feel to your dog, however, ...

Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago. Two new genetic analyses combed the archaeological record for domestic dogs ...

Living with dogs can make it feel like we understand each other perfectly. But as close as that bond can be, dogs and humans ...

The same biological signals that help predict lifespan in humans also appear in dogs, according to new research from the Dog ...

Dogs may be man’s best friend, but what if they boost our well-being not just by being our furry companions, but by altering our microbiome? A series of experiments in mice suggests that dog owners ...

While scientists have known that dogs were our first domestication relationship, before even agriculture took root, exactly how far back our best friendship goes just got pushed back another few ...