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 ...

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 powerful sense of smell, there's no doubt about that. While us humans stumble through life guided mostly by our eyes, our canine companions tend to walk through life with their noses, ...

It’s no secret that dogs have an extraordinary sense of smell that shapes their understanding of the world in profound ways. In the same way, we humans rely primarily on our vision to perceive the ...

Just about everybody knows that dogs are blessed with a superior sense of smell. As a matter of fact, their sense of smell is so sophisticated that humans, in comparison, are olfactory illiterates.

Dear readers, it never ceases to astound me the things researchers discover about our BFFs. In fact, it is downright amazing! Dogs devote lots of brainpower to interpreting smells. With more than 100 ...

It’s long been widely believed that dogs can detect extreme emotions by smell. Now scientists at Queen's University Belfast in the U.K. have proven that a dog's nose knows. Acute stress changes the ...

It’s been estimated that dogs smell up to 10,000 times better than us. That’s in part because they have about 220 million scent receptors, whereas humans have a mere 5 million. But dogs also inhale in ...

Dogs can detect everything from bombs to cancer with their sensitive noses. Here's what you need to know about whether dogs can sense pregnancy.

Wen-Ling L, Kygo’s owner, tells PEOPLE that within 24 hours of surgery, the French bulldog lifted his nose and sniffed like never before Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...