A wolf was filmed pulling bait out of a submerged crab trap u2014 with some experts howling with glee that it could be the ...

Ancient wolves lived with people on tiny Baltic island. Their bones show shared food and long contact that hints at early ...

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 ...

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, ...

A new video shows wolves may be smarter than we think. Are they smart enough to use tools? And are they getting smarter?

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

Scientists have uncovered surprising evidence that humans living thousands of years ago may have kept wolves close by—long ...

Werewolves often stalk the pages of horror stories, resurfacing each Halloween to send shivers down our spines. But what if one such tale wasn’t legend at all? In 1820s Sweden, a wolf launched a ...

Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A ...

Their new study, published in PNAS, examined 2,693 genomes from modern and ancient dogs and wolves. It shows that 64% of dog ...

Displaced and denied their favorite prey by logging, relentlessly winnowed by hunting, a few wolves still padded quietly about Arkansas in the 1920s. Loathed, feared, they also were admired as icons ...

For the fourth year in a row, Oregon's wolf population stayed almost exactly the same, according to the annual wolf report released Friday. The minimum number of wolves roaming the state in 2023 was ...