Research shows what canines really can sense— and how social media and human projection fuel belief in their supernatural ...

Dogs can smell when people are stressed, and it seems to make them feel downhearted. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For the new ...

Dogs can detect everything from bombs to cancer with their sensitive noses. Here's what you need to know about whether dogs can sense pregnancy.

Dogs can reliably smell when people experience acute stress. They do this by detecting subtle chemical changes in human sweat ...

Dogs have a powerful sense of smell, there's no doubt about that. While us humans stumble through life guided mostly by our eyes, our canine companions tend to walk through life with their noses, ...

Some concerned dog owners may even ask, “Should I move on and forget about it, or is it time to call the Ghostbusters?” (Insert dramatic horror music.) Well, here’s the scoop: Dogs sometimes react to ...

In a series of previous essays, I summarized the five major senses dogs use to navigate their social and nonsocial worlds either singly or by combining them into what ethologists call composite ...

Dogs are capable of using their nose for many tasks: hunting, retrieval, and finding that cookie crumb you dropped beneath the couch. Now we can add “mussel sniffing” to the list. The California ...