CAMDEN — A Preble County Chihuahua named Spike has celebrated his 26th birthday. Spike was named the world’s oldest living ...

The title of the oldest dog ever is hotly debated, with new claims popping up online every year. Many sources insist that ...

But whilst undeniably (and impressively) old, living through such events as the Aztec Empire and the exploding whale incident of 1970, they are colonial organisms. The oldest individual (non clonal) ...

Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s ...

That’s exactly what happened to an unfortunate graduate student named Donald R. Currey back in the summer of 1964, who ended ...

From tiny Chihuahuas to energetic beagles, some dogs are simply built to go the distance, a veterinarian told Newsweek.

Perhaps because we rely so much on the senses of sight and hearing, our sense of smell sometimes takes a back seat in our ...

Having a more famous neighbour has long meant that Glasgow was under-estimated and under-appreciated. That era is over. Once ...

In the Media & Entertainment section of our In Memoriam issue, we remember Jerry Strobel, Dolores Seigenthaler and more.

A Neolithic burial in Sweden shows how humans treated dogs as valued companions, offering rare insight into ritual life 5,000 ...

While the exact breed of dog is not yet known, it was a large and powerful 3- to 6-year-old male that stood about 20 inches ...

The four-year-old dog was originally raised to be a guard dog for a drug house until his previous owner had been arrested.