For the first time in thousands of years, dire wolves are alive – or at least a close approximation to them – as scientists claim to have achieved the world's first successful animal de-extinction.

All modern-day pooches, from beefy Newfoundlands to scrawny Salukis, are descended from an ancient population of domesticated gray wolves. Despite the 20,000 or so years that have passed since, a new ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Recently, the Chronicle ran a "fairy-tale" story concerning the progress of the reintroduction of ...

The predators have increased by almost 60 percent on the continent Olivia Ferrari Wolves have filled humans with wonder throughout our history, and they have been featured in art and mythology for ...

Epicyon haydeni, or Hayden’s bone-crushing dog, roamed North America between 12 and 6 million years ago during the middle to late Miocene epoch. Its fossils have been discovered in at least 12 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Wolf bones unearthed on a tiny island in the Baltic Sea were ...

New research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History reveals that the majority of dogs living today have low but detectable ...

A look at how wolf policy shifted from eradication to protection, and why wolf conflict is rising again across the West. The ...