Many people love dogs and keep them as pets. But sometimes dogs carry diseases that spread to humans. Many people think only ...

Rainy walks and sofa snuggles feel harmless, yet the season can smuggle health risks into busy, kid-filled homes, quietly. As puddles return and muddy ...

Ringworm is a common fungal skin infection that spreads easily and often looks like a thin red circle on the skin. Despite ...

Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have ...

Dogs have been part of human societies across Eurasia for at least 20,000 years, accompanying us through many social and ...

A Washington state resident has tested positive for bird flu, marking the first human case in the U.S. in nine months, and ...

Across species from pets to wildlife, chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer, and arthritis are increasingly common — and humans share much of the blame. Across the globe, animals from household pets ...

We often attribute this diversity to a relatively recent phenomenon: the Victorian kennel clubs that first emerged around 200 years ago. These clubs are usually credited with formalising the selective ...

We’ve lived together for some 15,000 years, and we share 84 percent of our genes with one another. Humans and dogs are inextricably linked in countless ways, and one of those ways is the health ...

Advances in sequencing ancient DNA have revealed that over millenia, people have moved into new regions in successive waves, ...