From sniffing out rare species to tracking down poachers, dogs aid conservation efforts in a surprising variety of ways. And a growing list of successes shows how our best friends’ legendary ...

Black-tailed prairie dogs, the best known of the five prairie dog species, live in larger communities called towns, which may contain many hundreds of animals. Typically they cover less than half ...

How is it that the dog, alone among Earth's species, comes in so many shapes and sizes? One way to get a feel for just how diverse dogs have become is to jam your fingers down the throat of a ...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the rare animal species ... or not there was any relation to the singing dogs that are currently held ...