Nearly 40 years ago, a couple walking their dogs made a discovery which turned out to be one of the most significant finds ever in archaeology in western Europe. In September 1986, Eve Roberts and her ...

Paleontologists spent decades trying to explain "Devil's corkscrews," the bizarre spiral-shaped fossils found in Wyoming and ...

Nathan’s Famous, which opened as a 5-cent hot dog stand in Coney Island more than a century ago, has been sold to packaged ...

Six dogs were killed and two others were injured after a fire broke out Tuesday afternoon at the Give a Dog a Home animal ...

Zealandia, the world’s first fully fenced urban ecosanctuary, is taking a long view on conservation—and creating one of New ...

You know that look dogs give when they’re clearly not on board with whatever you’re doing? Yeah. That one. Now add tiny ...

A small dinosaur with a giant claw and a bizarre hand structure is changing how scientists think about prehistoric predators.

Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape appearing over 11,000 years ago. A massive global analysis of ancient skulls shows ...

Stone Age dog burial from Ljungaviken. Credit: Carl Persson/Blekinge Museum. Deep in the Swedish peat bog, archaeologists have recovered something remarkable: the 5,000-year-old remains of a faithful ...

Although exact figures are hard to come by, some estimates suggest that 25,000 dogs roam freely around Ladakh. The dogs, which can carry a range of diseases, including rabies, pose a well-known threat ...

Researchers at Duke University set out to study dogs' intelligence, finding insights into how dogs learn, their individual strengths, and how the species is evolving to become even better companions ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown ...