A Finnish study examining interaction between humans and their assistance dogs has found that these working canines actively ...

Assistance dogs are active caregivers, according to a new study by the University of Turku and Aalto University in Finland.

Learn how dogs can detect cancer and diabetes in humans using their extraordinary sense of smell, alerting owners to health risks before symptoms appear.

Among dog breeds, Nova Scotia duck tolling retrievers (tollers) have an unusually high rate of Addison's disease, a condition ...

"This means that by 15,000 years ago, dogs with very different ancestries already existed across Eurasia, from Somerset to ...

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 ...

The bond between humans and dogs is one of nature's most enduring partnerships, but exactly when it began has long been a mystery. Now, a new study has turned back the clock. The study, titled "Dogs ...

Unlike the controlled environments of factories or warehouses, everyday communication in homes is filled with ambiguity that ...

We've all heard it a million times: One human year is equal to seven years for a dog. But new scientific research has an updated scientific equation to determine how old your dog actually is in human ...