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 ...

The ancient remains of two gray wolves were found in a cave on Stora Karlso, a small Swedish island located in the Baltic Sea ...

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 ...

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, ...

There is ever-growing global interest in the nature and effects of human-nonhuman interactions (anthrozoology) in all sorts of situations, and it's not at all surprising to learn that humans ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who said it first, no one knows. But Frederick the Great, warrior ruler and enlightened despot of 18th-century Prussia, said it well. “The only, absolute and best friend a man has, in this selfish ...

Park officials did not specify the nature of the concerning human-wildlife interaction, or what will be done that allows the campground to reopen safely.

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 ...