For years, researchers have known that young children pick up words just by being around conversation. Toddlers do not need ...

Dogs are our companions, but they're also living proof of artificial selection. Dogs have coevolved and adapted to live in a ...

Leaving a dog home alone can be harder than it sounds. This reported look at DogTV explores how the channel supports calm ...

Typical family dogs can understand action words such as ‘sit’, but not words that describe objects. Shany Dror at the ...

The Nature of Things explores how dogs might be using human language with the help of buttons on a soundboard.

According to animal advocate Carol Erickson of the Pennsylvania SPCA, when it comes to choosing their favorite humans, dogs have certain qualities and behaviors that they prefer, and they're drawn to ...