A common example of this are the brachycephalic dog breeds. Brachycephalic means “short-headed”, and this term is used to ...

These dogs have a short snout, flat face and underbite ... they have a broad but relatively shortened skull and blunt muzzle. As a result, chow chows are more likely to develop respiratory ...

The only breeds that stood out as truly different were those with extremely short snouts ... that most variation in dog skull shapes centers around two main features: snout length and the ...