Dogs turn out to be much more sophisticated drinkers than previously realized, since new research explains how they seemingly defy gravity with each gulp. The findings, published in the latest Royal ...

Stories about lap dogs are everywhere, but researchers at the Virginia Tech College of Engineering can tell the story of dog lapping. Using photography and laboratory simulations, researchers studied ...

Dogs lap because they have incomplete cheeks and cannot suck. When lapping, a dog’s tongue pulls a liquid column from the bath, suggesting that the hydrodynamics of column formation are critical to ...

Despite previous suggestions that cats are daintier drinkers than dogs, a new study finds that canines use the same techniques as kitties to guzzle liquids. Like cats, dogs depend on the adhesive ...

Dogs aren’t known to be the most graceful of drinkers – place a bowl of water in front of a thirsty canine and you’re likely to see much of its contents splattered across the floor. But researchers ...

This precious pup is lapping up the praise. A Midwest pooch named Rocky set a Guinness World Record for the longest tongue on a dog, measuring at 5.46 inches. The Illinois canine, 9, is the beloved ...

But the clips above and below, filmed in X-ray and visible light, challenge assertions that canines drink by scooping up fluid with a backward-curled tongue. Instead, dogs pull up a column of liquid ...

Dogs are better water guzzlers than you’d think. BY Charlie Sorrel Nothing better illustrates a dog’s dull-witted enthusiasm than its chaotic slurping from a water bowl. Like a non-swimmer trying to ...