Julie Majid, Author at petsnpals.co

Can Your Dog Actually Understand You? 12 Ways We Think They Do

September 10, 2025 by Julie Majid

Science and daily life keep showing us that dogs grasp more than we imagine.

Ask any dog owner, and they’ll swear their dog gets them on some level. It’s not just the way tails wag at certain words, but how dogs tilt their heads, follow tone, and seem to anticipate actions before they’re spoken. Researchers have been studying these moments, and what they’re finding adds depth to what people already sense.

Dogs may not understand us like humans do, but they decode our cues with remarkable accuracy. From words to gestures to emotions, their comprehension reveals itself in everyday ways that are impossible to ignore once you start paying attention.

Archaeologists Say Newly Unearthed Civilization Could Rewrite Human Origins

September 10, 2025 by Julie Majid

New Archeological Discovery might change everything we thought we knew.

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, archaeologists are uncovering something that is challenging everything we thought we knew about early human civilization. The ongoing discovery of an advanced settlement predating known civilizations by thousands of years is forcing researchers to scramble and rewrite textbooks.

This isn’t just another archaeological find. The sophistication of the tools, structures, and agricultural systems is suggesting our ancestors were far more advanced than previously imagined, currently reshaping our understanding of human development and migration patterns across the globe.

Scary New Update Emerges About Earth’s Largest Iceberg And Why that Matters

September 9, 2025 by Julie Majid

Nature’s frozen titan shatters, A23a’s fall rewrites the fate of the South Atlantic

Antarctica’s most famous iceberg just lost its crown in the most dramatic way possible. A23a, the trillion-ton behemoth that has captured scientific attention for nearly four decades, is rapidly disintegrating into massive chunks across the South Atlantic Ocean.

What makes this development particularly unsettling isn’t just the spectacle itself, but what it reveals about our changing polar regions and the cascading effects that follow when nature’s giants finally meet their match.

Gen Z Is Picking Dogs Over Kids And the Numbers Prove It

September 9, 2025 by Julie Majid

The choice is showing up in statistics that are hard to ignore.

It’s not just a vibe shift, it’s a full demographic turn. Across the U.S., surveys and birth data tell a story: Gen Z is choosing to raise dogs while delaying or skipping children altogether. The cost of living, shifting cultural priorities, and an appetite for companionship without the same long-term stakes are shaping decisions that ripple beyond households and into national statistics.

And when you stack the numbers side by side, the contrast sharpens. Dog ownership is climbing just as fertility rates slide downward. What once was framed as rebellion against tradition is now quietly turning into the new normal, and the dogs, in a way, have won.

Pacific Northwest Loses Over One Billion Marine Animals

September 9, 2025 by Julie Majid

A billion lives ended in days, and the shoreline still remembers.

The summer of 2021 didn’t just break temperature records in the Pacific Northwest, it broke the very balance of the coastline. A “heat dome” parked itself over British Columbia and Washington, cooking the intertidal world like an oven. For animals trapped between tides, survival wasn’t even an option.

What scientists saw afterward was staggering. Mussels clung to rocks with shells split open. Sea stars crumbled into mush. Clams boiled alive in their sandy beds. And when the counting began, the number that surfaced wasn’t in the millions. It was over one billion.