K9 Stevie has graduated from the Penn Vet Working Dog Center's scent detection school and joined the Harford Co. Sheriff's ...

Dogs' sniffing skills may soon get a boost, thanks to a groundbreaking discovery by animal behavior experts in the United Kingdom. Since detection dogs use their exceptional sense of smell to sniff ...

Dogs are human’s best friends for so many reasons. They’re loyal and kind, but also incredibly smart. Some dogs are so smart that they actually work helpful jobs. Perhaps the best example of this is ...

A new study shows that millions of family dogs can join the fight against the invasive spotted lanternfly with just minimal home training, and perform about as well as professional detection dogs.

Dogs rely on scent in ways that still surprise researchers. They have up to 300 million olfactory receptors, compared to about 6 million in humans, and can detect smells 10,000 to 100,000 times more ...

Several Kentucky law enforcement agencies use specially trained dogs to find hidden electronic storage devices. The dogs are trained to detect a specific chemical found on electronic storage devices.

Researchers at the School of Veterinary Medicine’s Working Dog Center published new research on how trained dogs can detect the odor of a certain type of canine cancer in blood samples. The dogs were ...

There is new hope in the fight against a devastating cancer in dogs that is often deadly. Researchers at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center in South Philadelphia are training dogs to help detect ...

After a decade helping rescue koalas from bushfires and other disasters, 11-year-old detection dog Bear retired in March ...