While dogs and cats are genetically unrelated, breeding for certain features is making some dog and cat breeds look more and ...

At first glance, a Persian cat and a pug dog might seem worlds apart—one’s a feline, the other’s a canine, separated by ...

Persian cats and pug dogs evolved nearly identical flat faces due to human breeding. This convergence makes them look similar ...

For dogs (or evolution, I should really say) have discovered the chink in our armor.... Looking over the paean to science I have just written, I worry I might be giving a slightly misleading ...

From Pekingese to St. Bernard and greyhound, dogs come in such startling variety it's easy to forget they belong to the same species. The profusion of breeds today -- at least 150 -- reflects ...

One’s a cat, the other’s a dog, separated by 50 million years of evolution. But when evolutionary biologist Abby Grace Drake and her colleagues scanned 1,810 skulls of cats, dogs and their ...