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 ...

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 ...

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.