Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is ...

is often overlooked in discussions about brachycephalic dogs. While not as extreme as French Bulldogs or Pugs, their broad skull and shortened muzzles still place them in the category of flat-faced ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

The prevailing belief has been that selective breeding enhances a dog’s ability to perform specific tasks, but new research challenges this assumption, at least when it comes to skills associated with ...

For thousands of years, dogs have been considered humans’ best friends ... Credit: Worden Photography for Chapman University The lone group that showed distinct skull morphology was brachycephalic ...

"Any dog can bite, and bite hard if they choose." Similarly, breeds historically bred for scent work did not show distinct olfactory adaptations in their skull morphology compared to other breeds.

Study finds a poodle, Irish wolfhound, Labrador and Border Collie all have the same shaped skull, with size being the only difference ...

The human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens. Credit: Nadina CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikipedia commons The prehistoric human ...

A new study published in Science Advances analyzed three-dimensional skull shapes from 117 canids, including 40 domestic dog breeds and 18 wild species like wolves and foxes. The surprising finding?