Humans cared for wolves long before dogs emerged, study finds - New evidence of wolves and humans living together on Swedish island points to likely prehistoric domestication ...

A remarkable discovery on a remote Swedish island is reshaping what scientists know about early human–wolf relationships and the origins of domestication.

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 ...

Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea – a place where the animals could only have been brought by humans. The study, published in ...

Our writer spent 30 hours traveling with arctic wolves and gained a new appreciation for these predators of the tundra.

Understanding the “landscape of fear” that predators create in their environments has helped us uncover just how drastically ...

When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reintroduced 14 gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995, the animals were, in some ways, stepping into a new world. After humans hunted wolves to ...

Brian Hare began studying dog intelligence as an undergraduate at Emory University in the 1990s, after realizing that Oreo, his Labrador retriever, had a remarkable ability. Unlike other animals, even ...

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The gray wolf, also called the timber wolf, is the largest member of the canine family with fur ranging from gray to brown, black or white. Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology ...