Dogs rely on their sense of smell in ways humans rarely understand. Their noses are built to detect tiny chemical traces, ...

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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 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, ...

Dogs have 220 million olfactory receptors compared with humans' 50 million, which makes canines "extremely effective at differentiating and identifying odors," said Dr. Mark Freeman, clinical ...

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 ...

People's sense of smell is just as sharp as those of rats and dogs, a US researcher says, calling for an end to a century-old "myth" to the contrary.

Resuming the hearing on stray dog regulations on Thursday, the Supreme Court said dogs can sense fear in humans and may turn ...