Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A new study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...

A hunter shot and killed two pet dogs with a bow and arrow while hunting deer with his son, according to authorities. John Lowe, 58, killed a woman’s two pooches — a beagle, Josie, and a chocolate lab ...

Yes, you can pay $50,000 to clone a pet. But others are using the technology to rescue endangered species. This week, we heard that Tom Brady had his dog cloned. The former quarterback revealed that ...

A LaPorte man is charged with killing two pet dogs with archery arrows while he was deer hunting. The man, John Lowe, and his son, Hayden Lowe, also face obstruction of justice charges. Lowe claimed ...

Everything from dogs and cats to lizards and peacocks has found its way into the Kardashians' and Jenners' hearts and homes The Kardashian-Jenner family is known for their large brood, but they have a ...

This article was made possible by the support of Yakult and produced independently by Scientific American’s board of editors. We got our first dog when my oldest son was 10. A friend who was a teacher ...

A zoo in northern Denmark is asking pet owners to donate their unwanted guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens and even small horses – not to put them on display but to feed them to the zoo’s predators. The ...

Pet dogs aren’t just property — they’re family, a Brooklyn judge ruled this week. The decision centers on a dachshund named Duke, who was hit by a car and killed two years ago in Mill Basin on July 4.

From Queen Victoria’s beloved King Charles Spaniel, Dash, to Queen Elizabeth’s famed love of corgis, dogs have played a central role in the lives of the British royal family for generations. And now, ...

Back in 2018, nine pet dogs suffering from various types of cancer participated in the clinical trial of an immunotherapy treatment that was developed by engineering a livestock virus called vesicular ...

Bad news for people who love good puppers: pet dogs seem, per an unsettling new study, to be astonishingly bad for the environment. “To a certain extent, we give a free pass to dogs because they are ...