Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do you ever look at a dog and think: oh my gosh I need to squeeze you right now and give you a home forever? There are a few ...

There are many things I love about working in animal welfare. One is that it’s an evolving field. The more we learn about animals (and the humans connected to them), the more our strategies and ...

Dogs have aided humans for thousands of years. Man's best friend has provided protection, companionship and hunting assistance since the days of the earliest human settlements. But how and when dogs ...

Anybody who has ever been on the receiving end of a pair of puppy dog eyes knows they’re capable of melting hearts from miles away. And according to a new study, that’s no accident. Experts in the UK ...

An extraordinary new study, examining the anatomical differences between dogs and wolves, has revealed our canine companions recently evolved a very small facial muscle allowing them to raise their ...

Dogs are one of humankind's greatest historical mysteries. Nobody is quite sure where they came from, but a new analysis of ancient wolf DNA points to somewhere in Asia. A cohort of geneticists, led ...

As man’s best friend, dogs are thought to have started hanging around with humans around 15,000 years ago. How this special relationship between two predators first kicked off has been a bit of a ...

The mournful, pleading, eyebrows-up expression dogs make is so familiar that we have made it into an idiom: puppy-dog eyes. A study suggests it’s yet another example of dogs’ remarkable ability to ...

Do you ever look at a dog and think: oh my gosh I need to squeeze you right now and give you a home forever? There are a few anatomical reasons for that kind of intrinsic response. But one of the ...