Dogs and wolves living today derive from a shared ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears ...

In May 2025, the European Parliament changed the status of wolves in the EU from “strictly protected” to “protected,” which opened the way for its member states to allow hunting under certain ...

As wolves return to parts of their historical ranges in Europe and North America, there’s growing concern that the predators are becoming less fearful of people. But a recent study from Poland shows ...

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

There is real concern among Colorado ranchers regarding wolves attacking and killing their livestock, but recreationists should be relieved to know wolf attacks on humans are nearly nonexistent in the ...

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 ...

Researchers found that the predatory canines were far more likely to flee recordings of human voices than they were to run away from other sounds. By Lesley Evans Ogden Lesley Evans Ogden previously ...

Imagine a time thousands of years ago when wild wolves roamed near human camps, their eyes gleaming in the firelight. These ...

In a rare opportunity to study carnivores before and after wolves were reintroduced to their ranges, researchers found that the effects of wolves on Isle Royale have been only temporary. And even in ...

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A siberian wolf at a kill. Source: Thomas Wallace Knox/Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons I was greeted the other morning by an email from a friend telling me that a paper published that day in the ...

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.