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

Yes, age-related hearing loss is real. Where once we could hear the full sweep up to 18kHz as teenagers, these days in our fifties and sixties, we’re probably tapping out around 14kHz on a good day.

So it is worth studying the last time America took over 2m sparsely populated, richly endowed, strateg­ically located square kilometres. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson pulled off the Louisiana ...

Research led by Kikusui Takefumi at Azabu University in Japan, published recently in iScience, explains what might be going ...

Living with a dog may shape teens’ behavior by changing the microbiome, with dog-associated bacteria linked to lower ...

Most people have a preferred way of communication—phone, text, email—but bare-nosed wombats have an unusual way of relaying ...

The innate health assessment is a checklist of 10 characteristics to look for if you’re getting a puppy or dog. A score of 8 ...

The monogamy rate in humans may be higher than you expected... but we do it in a strange way compared to other animals.

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

A new study uses sibling genetics to compare monogamy across species. Humans score higher than expected and sit close to monogamous mammals.

Gold Star spouse Jillian Hinton lost her husband, U.S. Army Sgt. Terrence Hinton on Mother’s Day in 2017 during a training accident in Hawaii. Terrence left behind his wife, and their two children, ...

One of the most adored Thanksgiving traditions is back as the 2025 National Dog Show returns to NBC and Peacock after the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday, Nov. 27 at 12:00 p.m. local time.