Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

New research has revealed that people often do not perceive the true meaning of their pet's emotions and can misread their dog. The reasons for this are many and include a human misunderstanding of ...

The animate-inanimate category distinction is one of the general organizing principles in the primate high-level visual cortex. Much less is known about the visual cortical representations of animacy ...

In prior bird flu outbreaks, there’ve been several documented cases of feline-to-feline spread, but ingestion seems to be the ...

Dogs fascinate and inspire us with their playful behavior and extraordinary senses. Still, there’s always more to learn about ...

Whether dogs are carnivores is a hotly debated question. On the one hand, they belong to the Carnivora order and descend from ...

Where does our avian flu epidemic come from? Commercial, large-scale poultry farming and migrating birds squeezed into ...

Approximately 700 dogs are competing in different classes at the Hill Country Cluster of Dog Shows, which is taking place ...

She has a spunky style, but she gets along really well with kids and dogs. Deputies in Polk County came to the rescue of an innocent duck that accidentally found herself in custody at the county jail.

There are more than 500 species of these fierce predators living today. Some people think sharks are mammals, but they are not. Sharks are members of the fish family. Are you wondering why? Continue ...

Competing theories explain how dogs came to be domesticated from wolves. Now, a new study adds further support to the idea that they domesticated themselves.

K9 Hurricane, a 16-year-old Belgian Malinois who was the most decorated dog in U.S. history, has passed away. “As much as we knew this time was coming there was no way to prepare. We miss him so ...