Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in the ...

Three unique-looking wolf pups have just been born in an American laboratory. Their special feature? Their DNA combines genes from gray wolves and sequences dating back 13,000 years. This birth marks ...

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 ...

On Dec. 22 I received a message from a local Fairbanks trapper whom I’ve known for years. It included a photo of an enormous black wolf he and his trapping partner had just caught, as well as the ...