Meet Moya: World's first life-like humanoid robot from China that walks, winks and smiles like a human The 'dumb money' steps ...

A new study suggests dogs began to diversify about 11,000 years earlier than we thought. Plus, a long-running experiment to ...

Dogs have been showing up in human history the way glitter shows up in your house: everywhere, permanently, and usually ...

The data shows a clear shift towards more 'human' names. The most common dog names of 2025 were Poppy, Luna, and Willow.

Try this new tool to check whether your pet's name is going extinct as research shows names once considered classics are ...

In 2025, the world marked another sad milestone in the ongoing loss of biodiversity: multiple species long missing from their habitats were officially declared extinct on the International Union for ...

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If you've ever had to spell out words like W-A-L-K or T-R-E-A-T around a dog, you know that some dogs listen in to humans' chitchat and can pick out certain key words. Well, it turns out that some ...

When it comes to cognitive ability, not all dogs are created equal. Most dogs can learn simple action cues like “sit” or “down.” But so-called “gifted word learner” (GWL) dogs exhibit a remarkable ...

Research suggests they learn as well as 1.5-year-old toddlers. Long recognized as a skill used by toddlers who are learning to understand language, scientists have discovered that a rare subset of ...

Toddlers can pick up new words just by overhearing conversations. Now, new research suggests that some intelligent dogs can expand their vocabulary in just the same way. Children as young as 18 months ...

Most dog owners are aware that their pooch is smart enough to know a few choice phrases—“walkies,” for instance, or, perhaps more likely, “time for dinner.” Some particularly intelligent canines can ...