A hero dog's life-saving career as a mine detector for the U.S. military is told in the documentary Zzaslow K-457.' ...

From dogs to whales, AI is unlocking how animals communicate.

Two studies report the oldest dog genomes ever to be sequenced, representing leaps in scientists’ understanding of the animal’s origins. Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding is in the Department of Birds and ...

California recently restricted rodenticides to protect wildlife, but rodents aren’t going away on their own. Dogs are a ...

Guide dogs are powerful allies, leading the visually impaired safely to their destinations, but they can't talk with their ...

Among dog breeds, Nova Scotia duck tolling retrievers (tollers) have an unusually high rate of Addison's disease, a condition ...

Learn how dogs can detect cancer and diabetes in humans using their extraordinary sense of smell, alerting owners to health risks before symptoms appear.

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Dharla, a detector dog at Canada's Toronto Pearson Airport, sniffed out a piece of luggage containing more than 48 lbs of raw meat. On X, Canada's Border Services Agency explained that the passenger ...

NEW YORK — Using the oldest dog genes studied so far, scientists are finding more evidence that our furry friends have been our companions for thousands of years. Scientists think dogs descended from ...

First responders in Falmouth, Massachusetts, worked for over two hours on Tuesday to pull a dog from a deep backyard sinkhole. Tessie is a yellow Labrador, and she was just out in the grass like usual ...