These rare Xolo pups look just like baby hippos, and their breeder is working to save the ancient breed from extinction.

What makes the Xolo’s official recognition noteworthy is the breed’s unexpected redemption. The AKC erased the breed from its stud book 50 years ago when interest in this once-popular dog faded and ...

MEXICO CITY – Mezcal is not your ordinary pet. Hundreds of years ago the Latin American Indigenous group, the Nahuas, believed that a hairless dog like him, a Xoloitzcuintle, was a sacred creature who ...

MEXICO CITY - Sleek with batlike ears, the hairless Xoloitzcuintles (show-low-ee-SQUINT-lees) look more like cartoon characters than canines. This rare breed's history dates back to the Aztecs, and it ...

The Xoloitzcuintli dog breed — sometimes called the Mexican Hairless or just Xolo — may well have descended from the first dogs to set paw on the North American continent. In their native Mexico and ...

Museum folklorist Cynthia Vid­aurri presents a talk on the xoloitzcuintli, commonly referred to as the Mexican hairless, an ancient dog breed that is deeply engrained in the culture and cosmologies of ...

MEXICO CITY — Mezcal is not your ordinary pet. Hundreds of years ago the Latin American Indigenous group, the Nahuas, believed that a hairless dog like him, a Xoloitzcuintle, was a sacred creature ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Freckles speckle his pink wrinkly skin. Ginger whiskers sprout only between his veiny ears, beneath his gummy chops and at the end of a rat-like tail. In a park full of fluffy ...

As the saying goes, "Don't judge a book by its cover." Yet, sometimes our eyes—and, frankly, society—may tell us stories about certain so-called scary dog breeds that we should avoid and that can make ...