Way back in the hunter-gatherer age, when humans were just figuring out animal domestication, animals had to have all four of ...

What a bizarre friendship: a golden retriever and a guinea pig spend so much time together that the dog probably thinks it's ...

With pigs becoming an increasingly popular pet choice, more and more videos of adorable little piggies playing with their animal siblings are popping up on social media. In particular, the videos of ...

The ability to detect vocal sounds, and the more specialized skill of recognizing calls from one's own species, is supported by evolutionarily ancient brain mechanisms, according to a new study from ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The unlikely friendship between a pet pig and a senior dog has melted ...

First things first: the guinea pig is not a pig and it’s not from Guinea. Now that we’ve cleared that up, let’s talk about what these charming rodents, also called cavies, actually are. Their ...

This little piggy has gone to the dogs. An adorable “service pig” has been welcomed into a popular Brooklyn dog park with open paws, even running off-leash with petite pooches — despite a city ban on ...

Yesterday I received a few holiday greeting emails and some people asked if I could please post something "short and sweet" (as Andy put it) about some life lessons we can learn from nonhuman animals ...