Both animal experts and Max Planck of the University of Rome tried to answer the age-old question, why do dogs wag their ...

Tails might look like nature’s afterthought but for many animals, they’re multitasking power tools. Whether it’s balancing, fighting, flirting, or escaping predators, tails do way more than just wag.

You may have noticed that your cat's tail moves in all sorts of ways, from quivering in an upright position, to swishing from side to side, to being held down close to the ground. But besides using ...

DEAR PET TALK: How do cats waggle their tails? Aiden, third grade, Fitchburg DEAR AIDEN: This is a great question, because cats are able to communicate a lot of different signals with their tails. How ...

"Belle's a real tomboy," mom Mary Ivener-Hansen said as Belle played at the Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center Tuesday morning. "She likes to mix things up with her two older brothers." Belle is also an ...

Sooner or later, everybody who lives with a dog finds himself asking the question "Why does my dog have a tail?" It turns out that there are several good reasons why tails are a useful piece of ...