While dogs and cats are genetically unrelated, breeding for certain features is making some dog and cat breeds look more and ...

Our best friends come in a fantastic array of shapes and sizes; a Borzoi looks nothing like a Boston terrier, except for a certain fundamental, ineffable (except to taxonomists) doggyness about them.

If you, like me, have a spoiled, lazy dog that enjoys cheese flavoured treats, the fact that your pet's ancestors were wild predators can seem unfathomable. But a major new study suggests their ...

Modern dog breeds come in a mind-boggling array of shapes and sizes—from Chihuahua to Great Dane, corgi to greyhound, pug to German shepherd. In fact, the domestic dog, Canis familiaris, shows more ...

A new study has found about half of the variation seen in modern dogs existed during the Stone Age, challenging conventional wisdom that this diversity mostly emerged during the Victorian era.

Today, hundreds of dog breeds—from Beagles to Bernese Mountain Dogs to Bichon Frises—exist all over the world. Humans began classifying dogs by breed in the 1800s, and scientists assumed that was when ...

From village dogs to toy poodles to mastiffs, dogs come in an astonishing array of shapes, colors and sizes. Today there are estimated to be about 700 million dogs living with or around humans. To ...

A major archaeological investigation has uncovered when domestic dogs first started developing the wide range of shapes and sizes familiar today ...

The Beale Street Monster Club in Memphis celebrates the horror movies and horror stars of classic-era Hollywood.