Dogs sit beside us every day, and that closeness feels familiar. Over time, that familiarity can hide quiet changes happening under the surface. One of those changes appears inside the skull, where ...

What the new “brain expansion” studies actually found The most eye catching claim is that the brains of present day dogs are getting larger relative to their bodies compared with their wolf ancestors ...

A new fMRI brain imaging study of dogs shows that their brains process spoken words in hierarchical ways that are surprisingly similar to how the human brain uses a two-tiered hierarchy to process ...