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W57KD8 Panting happy dog sitting in a beautiful wildflower patch at St Abbs Head Nature Reserve, Scotland on a hot summer's day

Environment

Dog waste may harm nature reserve biodiversity by fertilising the soil

Dogs’ urine and faeces bring large amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus into suburban nature reserves, which could be harmful to plant biodiversity

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Girl and pet dog

Life

Pet dogs respond to an average of 89 distinct words or phrases

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A Jack Russell Terrier puppy sits behind an empty food bowl

Life

Feeding pet dogs just once a day might keep them healthier as they age

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three dogs in the window

Life

Dogs may get worse separation anxiety when left alone with another dog

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Dog in a scanner

Life

Dogs can pick out individual words when we speak to them

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Canis lupus hodophilax, Japanese wolf

Life

Extinct Japanese wolf is the closest wild relative of dogs yet found

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2C72R3H Rock carvings from the bronze age with a scene where two men with dogs and spears hunting a huge wild boar. One of the dogs is dead. The carvings are

Humans

Why the ancestors of dogs were our colleagues not friends

Culture

border collie

Life

Gifted dogs can learn 12 words in a week and remember them for months

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Two spaniels

Life

Cavalier King Charles spaniels carry a high number of harmful genes

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Dog eating food

Humans

Ancient dog faeces show how our canine friends became omnivores

Gut microbes helped ancient dogs eat starch-rich food when farming led to a change in diet for people and their animals, an analysis of 3500-year-old dog faeces reveals

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Humans

Ancient humans in Europe may have stolen food from wild hunting dogs

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Life

What would become of dogs without humans? Here’s how they’d evolve

Features

Life

Dogs will ignore you if they know you are lying, unlike young children

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Life

Your dog may not like you as much as you think it does

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