Face exercises and "face yoga" are all over social media. Do these actually work to sculpt the facial muscles or improve appearance? Experts weigh in. Face exercises, also known as "face yoga," are ...

Coyotes turn out to have face muscles that look capable of making that big-eyed, sad-puppy face that dogs have used to melt human hearts for eons. That discovery supports a rethink of humans’ history ...

Ever wonder why dogs are able to melt hearts the way they do? A group of researchers in the U.S. and the United Kingdom may have an answer for you. As it turns out, researchers discovered dogs have a ...

Consistent with the rehoming pattern of dogs who do and do not display puppy dog eyes, Dr Kaminski and her colleagues conclude, "Overall, the data suggest that selection—perhaps mainly unconscious ...

The coming of the genomic age has made popular genetic explanations of traits (behavioral as well as structural) in plants, animals, and humans (see, e.g., "Genomic Sequence of Strawberry Determined"; ...

In his 1863 book Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature, Thomas Henry Huxley raised hell by arguing that humans weren’t special. Like other animals, he said, humans are a byproduct of evolution, which ...

Dogs and humans communicate quite well. We're pretty good at reading what they want and what they're feeling, and they're very good at reading us. This reciprocal understanding of shared emotions, ...