Animals, though wordless, communicate complex messages through body language, sounds, scents, touch, and color changes. From ...

Science-based cartoons make it fun to become fluent in dog and to use the golden rules of social behavior for the benefit of dogs, their humans, and trainers, a win-win for all.

When related animals produce offspring, the young can be affected by physical abnormalities and health problems. We explain why.

We unpack the complicated subject of dog breeding genetics and explore arguments against very selective breeding practices.

An elderly ram which 'thinks he's a dog' has become an unlikely family pet after he started sneaking inside a couple's house ...

Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon — a change that’s based as much on science as ethics. Pressure ...

Relations between dogs and people are so normal and pervasive as to pass almost unregarded. Yet viewed objectively, this ...

Honey badgers are not actually named for their love of honey, in fact, they raid bee hives to loot the delicious, protein-rich larva inside, which seems like an overly complicated way to get protein.

But a new working paper suggests that the conventional wisdom is wrong, at least in Taiwan, where the birthrate is one of the ...

A dog has a close call with a tiger shark in Australia. The photographer is surprised, then shocked by the encounter.

“Almost all other monogamous mammals either live in tight family units of just a breeding pair and their offspring, or in ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...