Common wisdom has long held that each dog year is equivalent to seven human years. But a new equation developed to measure how a dog ages finds the family pup may be a lot older than we realize.

When it comes to calculating a dog’s age, most go by the well-known formula that "one dog year equals seven human years" – however the truth is, this isn’t accurate. It's not as simple as a one-size ...

If you're a dog owner, you have probably heard the popular myth that a single human year is equal to seven 'dog years'. That would make Britain's oldest dog, a 22-year-old Staffy from Devon named ...

Everyone knows that dogs don’t live as long as humans do, but it can be challenging to figure out how old your dog is in human years. After all, you may have heard the famous “1 dog year = 7 human ...

Figure out how old your dog really is using our dog age calculators. For fun, figure out how old you are in dog years too! It used to be thought that 1 dog year = 7 human years. That formula has been ...

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Turns out the old “multiply by 7” rule to calculate a dog’s age in human years isn’t quite right. Researchers from the University of California San Diego studied dog genomes to figure out just how old ...