The Dog Aging Project, a long-term study on canine aging, has collected data on dog behavior from more than 50,000 owners, distilling the results into scores for traits such as trainability, ...

Ever felt like you were "overreacting" because you couldn't stop crying over your pup while everyone else just didn't get it?

Our voice affects dogs more than we realize—and anger seems to have the strongest effect on them, a new study has found.

Could dogs ever learn something like speech? A new review explores the science behind enhancing canine communication.

When you hear about "science focused on how dogs can live their best lives with us" it sounds like an imaginary job made up by a child. However, the field of animal welfare science is real and ...

The current gold standard for judging canine character involves tests like the “Wesen test” (German for “character” or ...

For years, researchers have known that young children pick up words just by being around conversation. Toddlers do not need ...

It seems the diversity of domestic dogs first began developing thousands of years before humans started intensely shaping modern breeds in the 19th century—challenging what we thought about canine ...

A new study suggests dogs began to diversify about 11,000 years earlier than we thought. Plus, a long-running experiment to ...