Julia B. Linares-Roake explores how people navigate the muddiness of living with dogs from their point of view as we over-control how they play and express their "dogness." ...

Dogs have a special chemistry with humans that goes back many tens of thousands of years. Researchers investigated this special evolutionary relationship from a number of different angles. Their ...

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Why does your dog rush to "help" when you are searching for something, while your cat seems… eh, less concerned? New research suggests that this difference may stem from deep evolutionary roots—and ...

We’ve lived together for some 15,000 years, and we share 84 percent of our genes with one another. Humans and dogs are inextricably linked in countless ways, and one of those ways is the health ...

Dog owners often treat their pets like miniature humans – and now scientists are studying canines in the same way to discover more about the mystery of ageing in people. They suspect a clue to the ...