Deep inside a remote cave, a scatter of ancient wolf bones can feel like a crime scene frozen in time. The way those remains ...

On a wind-battered rock in the Baltic Sea, archaeologists have uncovered a puzzle that cuts to the heart of how dogs first ...

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 ...

What’s furry, cute, and may have ancestral ties to ancient wolves? Possibly, your dog. Researchers at the New York-based American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

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 ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...

Their names are Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi, and they’re the first dire wolves to walk the Earth in over 10,000 years — or so one biotech company and a flurry of recent headlines say. On April 7, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eleven months after Colorado reintroduced wolves, the nearly $5 million and counting voter-approved plan has been marred with concerns about political pressure from the governor's office and a lack of ...