The wolf’s life will change on a sweltering September day, but she doesn’t know it yet. All she knows is this: She is kept in a too-small enclosure topped with a tarp and guarded by cinder blocks to ...
Every household dog, from a towering Great Dane to a trembling toy breed, traces back to wild wolves. New genetic work shows ...
On a small island in the Baltic Sea, a cache of ancient wolf bones is reshaping how I think about the earliest encounters between humans and large carnivores in northern Europe. The remains, recovered ...
Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient ...
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, ...
Their new study, published in PNAS, examined 2,693 genomes from modern and ancient dogs and wolves. It shows that 64% of dog ...
National Park Service officials have killed a wolf on Isle Royale that was showing "escalating boldness around visitors" At least two wolves were seen repeatedly frequenting campgrounds and developed ...