Dogs are capable of using their nose for many tasks: hunting, retrieval, and finding that cookie crumb you dropped beneath the couch. Now we can add “mussel sniffing” to the list. The California ...

Dogs have a powerful sense of smell, there's no doubt about that. While us humans stumble through life guided mostly by our eyes, our canine companions tend to walk through life with their noses, ...

A woman with long, curly brown hair wearing a yellow shirt cuddles a shiba inu dog. Source: Vitaly Gariev / Pexels She curls up in your old sweater for comfort while you’re at work and could find her ...

Just about everybody knows that dogs are blessed with a superior sense of smell. As a matter of fact, their sense of smell is so sophisticated that humans, in comparison, are olfactory illiterates.

Dogs can reliably smell when people experience acute stress. They do this by detecting subtle chemical changes in human sweat ...

Eight dogs of various breeds collaborated on the study, four of which were recruited from the Penn Vet Working Dog Center and four from their community science program, which includes dogs that ...

Dogs really can be trained to smell Parkinson's disease, according to new research from the United Kingdom. In a double blind trial, a Golden Retriever and a Labrador were able to sniff out which skin ...

Dogs can detect everything from bombs to cancer with their sensitive noses. Here's what you need to know about whether dogs can sense pregnancy.

Humans can be trained to identify the eggs of the invasive spotted lanternfly. But it’s not easy. The mottled gray color of the egg masses often matches the areas where they’re laid, or they’re ...

A heartwarming video of the moment a dog stopped to smell the flowers on a walk has delighted the internet. Posted by Alena, known as @prostoalenaa on TikTok, the clip shows the moment the small dog ...