Research reveals that some prairie dog alarm calls encode remarkably specific information about humans and other predators.

Just about everybody knows that dogs are blessed with a superior sense of smell. As a matter of fact, their sense of smell is so sophisticated that humans, in comparison, are olfactory illiterates.

The grass is green, and the sun is up, and it is just the best day to be outdoors to soak up the sun and some lovin’, especially when you are only a year old and have two massive, fluffy bodyguards.

Unseen but all around us, the air we breathe in enclosed spaces is crucial to our health and well-being. Indoor air is not simply outdoor air that has been run through a filter: it has its own ...

A long-shared history links humans and dogs, a relationship that began more than 15,000 years ago when early wolves sought food and shelter near human settlements and gradually adapted to life ...

On Instagram, user @truffleupagus_ shared a video of Truffles, an AKC Red Fox English Labrador, and a tiny human partner in crime hanging out beside a shallow pool of muddy water in the yard. The ...

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If you’re one of the many Massachusetts residents sick with the flu right now, you may be distancing yourself from others to prevent the spread. But there is at least one close relation you don’t need ...

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 ...