New high-speed videos show us what we already knew: that dogs make a giant mess at the water bowl.

But the clips above and below, filmed in X-ray and visible light, challenge assertions that canines drink by scooping up fluid with a backwards-curled tongue. Instead, dogs pull up a column of liquid and chomp it — just like cats.

“It only looks like dogs scoop with back of their tongue. They drink the same way as cats, just sloppier,” said evolutionary biologist Alfred Crompton of Harvard University.

Crompton leads a study of dog drinking published May 25 in the Journal of the Royal Society...

Throughout most of the past century, Volvo built cars that were solid and reliable, yet somewhat uninspired. That changed 50 years ago this year, when the first P1800 rolled off an assembly line. Though billed as a car with Swedish, British and Italian heritage, the head-turning two-door turned out to be more Scandinavian than anyone imagined.

The P1800 was Volvo’s second attempt at a sports car after the failure of the Corvette-inspired fiberglass P1900 roadster. That car was canceled after fewer than 70 vehicles were built because of poor build quality. Special consultant Helmer Petterson w...