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.

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

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 ...

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

Assessing a dog’s temperament can be a high-stakes game. Get it wrong in a police dog, and you have a dangerous liability.

The new Dog Television Viewing Scale was used to assess what may draw some dogs to the TV. “Personality of the dog influences their viewing habits,” Jeffrey Katz, lead study author, psychology ...

Aside from the fact you have to leave Fido, Scraps and Mr. Barksalot at home, it’s hard to imagine an exhibition more appealing to dog lovers. Just opened at the Great Lakes Science Center, on the ...