It was the lunch break at a dog obedience trial, and a group of competitors had gathered around a notebook computer. One of them had found a website listing the newly-posted national rankings for the ...

Although dogs have been people's best friends for hundreds of years, we're still learning a lot about them, and a new study is going to challenge what many of us would have assumed about how ...

You don't find people the size of insects or giraffes; humans are all roughly the same size. The same is true of most species. There isn't a huge difference between the biggest and the smallest.

Most people believe that, in comparison to humans, dogs have exceptionally acute hearing. However, there are individual differences, and some dogs have better hearing abilities than others. One of the ...

A study of more than 25,000 U.S. dogs and 238 breeds has linked dog size to varying patterns of risk for health conditions over the course of a dog's lifespan. A study of more than 25,000 U.S. dogs ...

Dogs today come in a mind-blowing array of shapes and sizes, from the diminutive pug, Pekingese and Pomeranian to the grand Irish Wolfhound, Great Dane and Saint Bernard. But when did this diversity ...

The size and width of a dog's head accurately predict the strength and running ability of the canine, according to a paper in the latest issue of the journal Behavioural Processes. The finding likely ...