Enlarge / In the case of the samoyed, selection for physical characteristics produced a dog that sure looks happy. (credit: Zhao Hui) Many dog breeds are purely about appearance—think poodles and the Pekingese. But plenty of other breeds are devoted to specific tasks, like racing greyhounds. For many of these tasks, physical appearance isn’t enough: […]
Britney Spears ’ dogs have been returned. In case you missed it, the 39-year-old pop sensation’s pets were taken from her home about two weeks ago when a housekeeper became concerned about the animals’ well-being. On Saturday morning, TMZ revealed that “sources with direct knowledge” said the two puppies were super sick and dehydrated, with […]
It turns out there was a lot behind the alleged battery incident at Britney Spears ‘ home — and some of it was possibly Jamie Spears ‘ doing! As we previously reported , the star is being investigated after one of her longtime housekeepers claimed that Britney slapped her phone out of her hands during […]
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[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] Two men in Florida face animal cruelty charges after a TikTok video showed they performed an illegal surgery on a pregnant dog in their home that later resulted in her death. What the actual f**k! According to reports, Larry Colon allegedly saved up money and paid Frankie Huertas-Rivera to perform a […]
Enlarge (credit: Luna) Dogs tagged along with the first humans to venture into the Americas, according to a recent study that analyzed existing collections of canine and human DNA. The results suggest that people domesticated dogs sometime before 23,000 years ago in Siberia, where isolated groups of wolves and people were struggling to survive the […]
Enlarge (credit: Wikimedia commons) Dire wolves had a burst of newfound fame with their appearance in Game of Thrones, where they were portrayed as a far larger version of more mundane wolves. Here in the real world, only the largest populations of present-day wolves get as large as the dire wolf, which weighed nearly 70 […]
Not everybody has the time to search around (and of course many people don’t have any urge to store in shops at all now) and search for the most recent items available on the marketplace which can attract your loved ones and coworkers in their official lists. (Or to get themselves, as let us be […]
Expand (charge: Elizabeth Tersigni) Founded researcher Anders Bergstrom and his coworkers recently sequenced the genomes of all 27 puppies out of archaeological sites scattered across Europe and Asia, which range from 4,000 to 11,000 years of age. People genomes, and those of {} , reveal how dogs have transferred across the globe with people because […]
Expand / / A cowpea plant blossom. (charge: Maria Dattola Photography Jack Hoopes spends a good deal of time with dogs that are dying. A veterinary radiation expert in Dartmouth College, Hoopes has since also spent his decades-long livelihood treating canine ailments using the most recent experimental treatments as a pathway to growing human remedies. […]