Discover why dogs sniff everything with their incredible sense of smell. Learn how their olfactory abilities shape their ...

When we think about birds, we often picture their colorful plumage: the iridescence of a peacock's tail or the electric blue flash of a kingfisher. Or we might consider how they use voices, from the ...

When Hoss saw that people were avoiding him, he asked Little Joe, “Do I smell bad?” Joe turned toward Hoss and sniffed, “You ...

I know I have told you before that I consider myself the crazy dog lady. It doesn’t matter where I see the dog — with his walker, in a car, in a shopping cart — I always want to pet it.

Dogs with short or absent tails, like Pugs (pictured) and French Bulldogs, are twice as likely to be involved in an ...

They say a dog with a wet nose is a happy dog. Anyone who has ever met a happy pooch knows that a pup’s excited nose licking means good feelings all around. So why do ...

Jackie French was used to the quirks of wild animal behaviour – and then she met a carrot-mad wombat with an appetite for destruction. A bestseller was born ...

Massi rushes down the slope, leaps across a slow-running stream and disappears inside a thick bush. Rosie, his young ...

The dogs were trained to detect the chemical signatures of hemangiosarcoma, a common and aggressive cancer typically diagnosed in dogs at advanced stages.

While not keeping up with pugs or bloodhounds in the nose department, German Shepherds also have a keen sense of smell, ...

Before you read further, stop and take a good look at your dog’s nose. It isn’t just cold and wet, it is one of nature’s finest creations. Dogs have pretty amazing noses. The sense of smell is the ...

Rosie is a freelance writer living in London. She has covered everything from ancient Egyptian temples to exciting medical breakthroughs, but she particularly enjoys writing about wildlife, ...