With a distribution that once stretched around the entire Northern Hemisphere, spanning Arctic tundra, temperate forests, grasslands, and deserts, the gray wolf is one of the most successful predators ...

Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully emerged, according to a new study. Archaeologists found the remains, dated ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two wolves walk through their enclosure in Hanau's Alte Fasanerie wildlife park. Wolves remain fearful of humans even in areas ...

The grey wolf is one of the world's most fearsome apex predators despite having a cute and cuddly appearance.

Fear of the fabled "big bad wolf" has dominated the public perception of wolves for millennia and strongly influences current debates concerning human-wildlife conflict. Humans both fear wolves and, ...

Wolves became dogs via cooperation and reciprocity rather than through competition with humans "I wrote this book to remind people that the wolves we often demonize and persecute through wildlife ...

With only a few hundred red wolves left, Smithsonian scientist Jennifer Nagashima is pioneering new ways to preserve their genetic diversity.

In September 2017 a close friend was killed in Rhodope Prefecture in Norhern Greece. Her death was initially reported as being due to an attack by wolves with the local coroner reported as saying that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. From their wolf ancestors to today’s sweet, loyal ...

The island measures just 2.5sq km and there is no evidence of native land mammals. Because of this isolation, researchers believe the wolves were brought in by people, most likely on ships. One ...