A dog looking directly at a camera. “Ignore my annoying baby talk, but I love seeing her eyes dilate when I talk to her. It ...

Unlike the controlled environments of factories or warehouses, everyday communication in homes is filled with ambiguity that ...

Two studies published in Nature on March 25, 2026, have extracted and analyzed ancient DNA from more than 200 dog and wolf ...

Brian Hare began studying dog intelligence as an undergraduate at Emory University in the 1990s, after realizing that Oreo, his Labrador retriever, had a remarkable ability. Unlike other animals, even ...

Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago.

Katharine Mershon examines how stories about human-dog relationships are actually very much about ourselves—​who's rescuing ...