Whether it’s corn chips, Fritos, or even Doritos, if you have a four-legged, furry best friend, then you’re familiar with that smell coming from your dog’s paws. It’s not a bad smell, but why is the ...

Dogs experience the world primarily through smell. Their noses are built very differently from ours, with specialized anatomy designed for scent detection. This video explains how a dog’s sense of ...

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 truly astonishing sense of smell that goes far beyond anything we could imagine. From picking up the scent of a potential mate miles away to uncovering an explosive, a dog's nose is always ...

In a series of previous essays, I summarized the five major senses dogs use to navigate their social and nonsocial worlds either singly or by combining them into what ethologists call composite ...